{"id":2785,"date":"2018-04-05T15:06:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2018-04-06T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T12:59:08","slug":"ropery-songs-now-on-you-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2018\/04\/05\/ropery-songs-now-on-you-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"Ropery Songs now on You Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/04\/Untitled-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2786\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/04\/Untitled-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/04\/Untitled-3.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/04\/Untitled-3-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In May 2017, SMFA Lecturer in Fine Art, and Partner College Liaison Officer, Tim Meacham, facilitated an innovative public event in the Historic Dockyard Chatham Rope Walk with LTHT, a University of the Arts London community of practice group engaged in low-tech and high-tech action, traversing sound, space, interaction and textiles. The result \u2013 <em>Ropery Songs<\/em> \u2013 is now available on You Tube.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/04\/Untitled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2787\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/04\/Untitled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/04\/Untitled.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2018\/04\/Untitled-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event, which took place on Monday 29th May 2017, was a collaboration between staff and students from SMFA Fine Art and UAL Textiles, Interior Spatial Design and Sound Studies. The project sought to activate the ropery by transforming the whole structure into a musical instrument through improvised &#8220;playing&#8221; of the space. Ropery Songs offered a valuable opportunity\u00a0for\u00a0staff and students\u00a0from\u00a0different\u00a0universities\u00a0and\u00a0disciplines to\u00a0come\u00a0together\u00a0for\u00a0one\u00a0day\u00a0to create a\u00a0new shared space of\u00a0sound\u00a0and\u00a0performance through the\u00a0re-reading\u00a0of\u00a0this historic\u00a0building.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ropery Songs<\/em> film documentation can be viewed here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A0MWP1yIlus\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A0MWP1yIlus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2017, SMFA Lecturer in Fine Art, and Partner College Liaison Officer, Tim Meacham, facilitated an innovative public event in the Historic Dockyard Chatham Rope Walk with LTHT, a University of the Arts London community of practice group engaged in low-tech and high-tech action, traversing sound, space, interaction and textiles. The result \u2013 Ropery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2018\/04\/05\/ropery-songs-now-on-you-tube\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ropery Songs now on You Tube<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,24626,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2791,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}