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TEK Tonic
17-07-2009, 08:46 AM
My friend was a guest speaker/demonstrator at an international ceramics festival in North Wales a couple of weeks ago. He made a clay sculpture that gets covered in heat-proof material and then fired over 24 hours up to a temperature of 1200 degrees C. After 24 hours it is unveiled (all teh het-proof material is taken away) leaving teh sculpture still standing, glowing and looking awesome for some minutes.

Another friend and I were asked to play songs about fire and heat as a metaphor for love (my old flame, warming my heart, burning love, etc) for the entire 24 hours climaxing at the unveiling where we generated an atmosphere of excitement, discomfort and anticipation by making some nasty noises, repeating loops from a load of the fire songs and sending sub-bass drones through teh system. At teh unveiling itself we dropped a tune that we spent a LONG time selecting and then we edited it a bit so that it better met our needs.

Anyway, here is a video from during the day (nobody got much sleep and I managed to stay awake for 43 consecutive hours in total)...

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This is just before the unveiling...

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This is the unveiling...

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And this is just after the unveiling...

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It was a truly awesome event and I genuinely don't think ceramic art is ever going to be the same again - we blew some minds maaan!!
joshd96320
17-07-2009, 09:30 AM
awesome .. looks like one of them things you cant propelry catch on cam
TEK Tonic
17-07-2009, 10:17 AM
awesome .. looks like one of them things you cant propelry catch on cam

Yep - pretty much.

These do give a pretty good impression though... or maybe that's just because I was there!
joshd96320
17-07-2009, 10:29 AM
=)

how long did it take to cool down

i couldnt help but wonder what would have if it exploded and people were peppered with burning ceramics
TEK Tonic
17-07-2009, 11:36 AM
It was cool enough to touch a couple of hours later and it got moved teh next day.

Exploding was a bit of a concern, but these artist types know what they are doing so not too much of a worry TBH.
joshd96320
17-07-2009, 11:49 AM
cool beans

"exploding was a bit of a concern"

ahaha
p0ly
17-07-2009, 02:19 PM
very pretty
DaftFader
18-07-2009, 05:05 AM
and you say the 1997-2009 bit on the banner is too final .. i just shit my self thinking you were advertising your "last event" ever ... :laugh_at: ... glad your still going tho ... one of your hard tek mixes gets me to and fro work every once in a while ;)
DaftFader
18-07-2009, 05:10 AM
and that thing is pretty fucking cool btw!
TEK Tonic
18-07-2009, 09:56 AM
and you say the 1997-2009 bit on the banner is too final .. i just shit my self thinking you were advertising your "last event" ever ... :laugh_at: ... glad your still going tho ... one of your hard tek mixes gets me to and fro work every once in a while ;)

Cheers Mr F - glad you are still enjoying one of my mixes.

And thanks for being so concerned that I might be giving up on the DJing! :group_hug

It was the last gig I played at... NOT my last ever gig :wink:

And it was pretty fuckin' cool too - I still smile every time I think about it :weee:
DaftFader
18-07-2009, 06:48 PM
Cheers Mr F - glad you are still enjoying one of my mixes.

And thanks for being so concerned that I might be giving up on the DJing! :group_hug

It was the last gig I played at... NOT my last ever gig :wink:

And it was pretty fuckin' cool too - I still smile every time I think about it :weee:
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