Tom Waits

I have about four projects going on so I don't get bored, a satircal collage project, that is just letting me get my ideas in to a book in a interesting way, then I have a diary that is different to this because I speak about most things basically everything that is on my personal map, shall soon enough be covered.

I have an assemblidge that is just a memory board of collections, like I have taken apart a musical keyboard that was broken and all the circuitry shall be attached on this board then I have found some parts from a old guitar that was given to me, and that will end up on there also, then some toy soldiers and news articles, I shall photograph it every month or so , to see how it has progressed then, Do a review at the end of the year, I am hopeing it could be a 3 year project that I work on it as I please so its just a get away from things, then at the end When its completely full and documented in a photograph I shall burn it and film it burning, kind of showing getting rid of old a new beginning, but I have all the memories in a nice book of photographs, maybe recycle a falling apart book.

Lauren on the course has made her drawing book, out of an old book and is just filling it with all sorts looks great, if i use the same idea but maybe a more refinned version could look good enough to publish maybe.

My main project is about conversations and is linked to Waiting for Waits, which is using all sorts of interviews of Tom Waits and making a film from all these interviews and live performances, almost like a film portrait of one of my great influences, such a beautifully bizzare poet and imaginary musician.

At the moment I am recording bus journeys, taxi rides any other activity on a dictaphone and then writing down all the wierd things that have been said, then I shall make new conversations and record people reading the new conversations. With these conversations I shall do a bit of a phone jacker, and call two people up on two different phones and put them together, and put them both on loud speaker and record the wierd conversation there having, then play it back to them then record it, then work in a loop could make lots of layers then play in an empty room with just a telephone.

This is influenced by Christain Marclay, when he made a film called telephones, from all scenes when theres telephone conversations in films and he collaged it together to make a wierd abstract conversation.