Meeting VU Music regarding mobile project

Yesterday we met Adam Hutterer and Stephen Rando at Kindred Studios in Yarraville, where the VU TAFE music program is based. They took us on a quick tour of the facilities, which are developing rapidly and offer good scope for future projects.

We then discussed how the mobile phone project might work with their students.

They had a lot of good ideas including;

- A tour of Melbourne music venues, crawling from Brunswick St Fitzroy, through the city, to St Kilda.

- Venues include live music venues, studios, music stores, and places of historic musical interest.

- a 'treasure hunt' tour of the Kindred facilities as a form of orientation for new students (for future extensions of the project)

Questions may cover aspects such as;

- Technical setups: PA arrangements, acoustics, stage setup, venue size etc

- OH&S: hazards and risks, mitigation strategies in place etc

- Melbourne music history: sites of former venues and scenes

We will meet them again in a month, by which time we will have some precise parameters for them to work with, including how many words can fit on the screen for questions and answers.