Tara Pattenden – PhD
This project will combine wearables with participatory practices to discover how costume-based, audience-worn instruments – with visually impactful and intuitive electronic interfaces – can enhance engagement and expression for co-authored audience engagement during participatory sound works. Underpinning the project is the drive to champion the democratising of creativity and collaborative experiences through absurd making, craft, participatory design, and what Christopher Small has termed Musicking.