Song: The Future mobile performance launched

The opening day for the song performance draws near! Indeed, by the time you read this, there's a good chance that Lu will already be walking Leeds Industrial Museum's halls, telling her story and listening to yours in kind. Of course what this has meant for us is a frenzied final week of activities from all sides with precious little time to relax, as we work to ensure that the performance in finalised and completely ready to go!Last Wednesday, we braved the train strikes to descend upon Armley for a full run-through of the performance in situ - the dress rehearsal, if you will. With a group consisting of both museum and university employees - with some half dozen phones of different makes between us - we set about putting the app through its paces. It was a delight to finally see Lu talking to us, and engaging with the museum on our tour around!

Although the experience ran largely smoothly, there were, of course, some technical hiccups along the way. Teething problems are to be expected for any project as bold and innovative as Song: the Future, after all! The issues, although relatively minor - animation problems on some operating systems, smaller screen sizes cropping subtitles and images awkwardly, and so forth - were all noted down to feed back to the development team.

Whilst this has been on-going, the marketing for the Song: Future performance  has also been kicking off in earnest! Maybe you've already seen one of the posters of flyers advertising it around town? Or heard about the exhibition through our press release? Perhaps you've even visited our Leeds Galleries and Museums website page!

However you've heard about the performance, we can't wait to share it with you. And more importantly, to hear back from you about it! Both during the experience itself and afterwards, through feedback at the museum and online.

It is your experiences and stories that we're here to listen to, explore, and perhaps even recount one day in the future. So don't be shy to tell Lu anything!

I hope to see you all at Armley mills soon!