North West Sound Archive...

Just come back from a very exciting meeting with artists Steve Manthorpe and Shanaz Gulzar at the NWSA. They have developed some jewellery for the museum shops from QR tags so that a wider audience will be able to access the 'gems' of sound files stored there (QR tags for the uninitiated, as I was until a few weeks ago, are the small square tags like barcodes that you see on packaging, and when you take a photo on your phone they open up as sound, film or picture files). They are also planning a QR tag trail for around Clitheroe Castle grounds in May. All of this work is in development, but below is a sneak preview of what the jewellery will look like...