Digbeth First Friday

The train's at 6.20, don't miss it...

Before Friday, I'd only been to Birmingham once before- and that was for a shopping trip with a friend. This time we were headed to Digbeth's 'First Friday'- an event which sees the first Friday of each month come alive with open studios, live music and street food.

Digbeth, although obviously run down, to me had some kind of industrialised magic about it. I don't know whether it was the eerie atmosphere but I felt inspired to create something walking through the streets(almost definitely just me). I mean maybe it was just dark and I couldn't seen properly but I felt like I was in a movie and I was a really cool DIY scene artist walking through the wreckage and on my way to making some kind of masterpiece which would then make me rich, famous and never have to work again... so I recorded it.

I took sound recordings of the train journey and walking to the studios which I want to edit as a part of my sound for an enclosed space. I personally find trains (Especially London midland ones) quite claustrophobic, and the noise can be quite overwhelming- so there we have an enclosed space. In the future I hope to create my own area, with physical artwork that mirrors the sound. I am also going to layer the audio clips to try and make my audience feel involved in the whole narrative of the work, as if they're there with me, at the station, on the train, walking the streets.

Digbeth's first Friday, October 2016