Mel; I decided to ask my family to collaborate and by doing so we have shared our unique skills together during our Christmas holiday. Stuart wrote a python list program that randomly lists, in a timed sequence, commands for us to follow. Our family then created these sounds using our bodies such as clapping thighs, shaking bottles of water or running on the spot. There are eleven commands that our family followed after fine tuning the outcome. The process is influenced by an online course I enjoyed during an isolated summer, it was about the Philosophy of Technology and references Mediation theory. This theory approaches technology as being mediators of the human world and their relation within an environment. It’s an existential dimension as through technology, humans are present and technology makes humans present, it’s therefore ontological as technology’s help shape human experiences and practices. My practice is normally dictated by the medium of rope and sound is produced via an algorithm. The juxtaposition of prehistoric tech and digital technology transcribes the above mentioned mediation theory and how we are incapable of being self sufficient. Our reliance and the relationship between the mediator and the mediating is being played out in this sound piece, as the computer programer commands action that creates the sound. I have purposely not edited the audio file so to express a sound of happenings that are instigated by a loop of mediation. https://melwinter021.wixsite.com/website

 Stuart; I enjoyed using this code in a creative way and getting the family involved. You never know how the random script (RNG) is going to perform, you get a few duplications but overall you never get more than three recurrences. Each time we ran the script, it was different, so was raw, not harmonised or subjected to normal rhythms found in music writing. If we had asked someone to decide what actions to perform, some form of biasses would have appeared as they may have preferred a sound over another and often patterns regulate sound making. Not being able to influence or control the outcome other than adjusting the commands made the performance feel less personal as the RNG (random number generator) was responsible for the curation of the sounds.