City of Boulder, CO Creative Neighborhoods Projects, 23 Jun 2021

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From YouTube: Artist Interview: Emmi Lindsey

Description

Emmi is building a large-scale PVC ‘pipe piano’ for her neighborhood. The pipe piano will be installed in her front yard with a kid-friendly description on the board of how the instrument works. Neighbors are invited to bring their own wooden spoons, drum sticks, spatulas to use as mallets for improvising on the pipe piano. Creative Neighborhoods: COVID-19 Work Projects was launched by the Office of Arts + Culture and Create Boulder: https://boulderarts.org/public-art/creative-neighborhoods/covid-19-work-projects/

A

Awesome so, first off I'm just going to have you introduce yourself in your creative career.

B

Yeah, my name is emmy lindsey, I'm a student at cu boulder and I study music education. um I my primary source of income is, I help direct a children's choir in denver.

A

Very nice very nice, um and then how has copic 19 affected your life and livelihood.

B

Yeah so, as you can imagine, uh children's choirs stopped happening when covid became a thing, and so I lost that job.

B

I also worked with in different capacities in the college of music, and so when cu boulder went to online classes or to remote learning um all the ways that I was involved in school, like ensembles and interacting with prospective students, was a big part of my my life at the college of music that all ended. So there was no musical interaction anymore, and that was tough.

A

Very sorry to hear that yeah, um so you've obviously been awarded a covet, 19 work project. Stipend. Would you mind just briefly telling me about your project and how it promotes connectivity in your neighborhood.

B

Yeah, absolutely so what I did is I built, I call it a piano, it's a bare bones piano. There are literally eight keys. um I built one of these pianos out of pvc pipe, so I study music education right and a big part of my life is um introducing kids to music and making it accessible and fun and intuitive- and I know there are lots of kids who live on my street because I see them riding their bikes around all the time.

B

So I built this little piano um put it in my front yard. The pvc pipes were attached to a board and you hit them with sticks and they would play different notes. It was a fun physics project trying to figure that out, um and so then I also um printed little half sheets of paper and put them in mailboxes. So people would know about the piano yeah. So it was lots of fun.

B

A

um Do you have a pro a project title for your um project? I.

B

Don't I yeah, I would just call it the piano. I mean that's wonderful,.

A

There's no real title. I just asked because when I'm editing the interviews uh we're having a credits slide at the end and it's actually been quite challenging to find project titles. That's.

B

Funny you can call it the piano. You can come up with something lovely if you want.

A

Awesome, okay, great um so, is there? Is there anything else you'd like to share about the project? Your experience so far.

B

um I mean it was a lot of fun initially. I started this project because I lost my income and this was another source of income, but it really was like enriching and fun to think about these kids and to see them on the street playing and um yeah. So it turned out to be like a more satisfying experience than I expected to have during covid. So I'm glad that it was a. It was an opportunity that I had.

A

Yeah, it's been, it's been interesting. Finding uh creative outlets during this time and I've been I've been so impressed by everyone's projects. So far, it's cool.

B

You get to see all of them.