Vox Pops with members of the audience

Sep 18

Vox Pops with members of the audience

As we came to the end of the first day's afternoon session there was a really nice vibe about the Scarborough Spa Complex as the audience began leaving the main hall, leaving an army of staff to rapidly clean up and prepare for the evening session that was to see Kyle Eastwood, Clint's son, play.

I quickly grabbed a Zoom recorder and rather hurriedly asked some of the passing audience members a few questions about their experience at Scarborough Jazz Festival.

I first chatted with David and Andrew who have travelled up from Lincoln and Michael and Daniel from Scarborough via London and Leeds respectively.

The last chat is with Yots from Jazz UK who provided three of today's bands and is a long time supporter of the Scarborough Jazz Festival.

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About 'Just Like Jazz'

'Just Like Jazz' is a collaborative project between Interactive Cultures, a research unit at Birmingham City University, and the Scarborough Jazz Festival. We're media academics who happen to be jazz fans and we're working with the Scarborough Jazz Festival to explore the ways in which jazz festivals can be portrayed online.

Rather than creating a brochure website around the festival, or simply filming the festival and putting that online, our goal is to capture the spirit of the festival using a range of techniques such as photography, text and handheld, personal digital video. We have given small, cheap, portable video cameras to select audience members, musicians, backstage staff and the festival organisers and asked them to capture whatever they think is interesting: the buzz of the audience, the surrounding environment, snippets of the music performed, and any discussions that take place around jazz.

The Just Like Jazz team
Left to right: Prof Tim Wall, Andrew Dubber, Dr Simon Barber, Jez Collins.

We're gathering together all of this video, photography and text from our contributors and publishing it live on this website as the festival happens. We're also tagging the content in order to experiment with the ways in which the characters and stories that are captured can be navigated by you, the visitor. This process gives audiences the opportunity to experience the festival in their own way and makes the event accessible to those who may wish to attend the festival in future years, or who may never have considered visiting a jazz festival at all.

Although we've worked on projects like this before, with Aftershock in Italy and with the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, we don't have a fixed idea of what we're going to end up with. We're working with a loose structure and quite a lot of improvisation - in a way, it's just like jazz.

Do come and say hello if you see us around. We hope you enjoy exploring the festival online with us,

Tim, Andrew, Simon and Jez.
http://interactivecultures.org