So we had our developed idea and we were enthusiastic about the project which was great, we had loads of ideas with places we could take the project. I started to reach out to musicians in the University of Lincoln School of Fine and Performing Arts. I contacted Ed Wellman a lecturer of the music department within the school. When presented with our brief and he seemed very interested in our project and mentioned that he was in fact hosting a trip to Nottingham to see the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra perform Gustav Holsts’ ‘Planets’ and we were invited. This trip provided a very good opportunity to listen closely to the whole of his work with no distractions.

Whilst on this trip i proposed our project to all the other musicians en route to Nottingham with us, and gathered a few people interested in helping out. After this i worked up on a official project proposal to send off to the rest of the musicians to inform and remind them of some details.

Whilst all of this was in development i contacted around 6 computer science lecturers to see who would be interested in helping out with the VR side of the project. I managed to get a meeting with Dr Jussi Holopainen and we discussed my idea briefly. We agreed that it was best that anything VR related would best happen once the music was finished, he expressed that he was concerned with the amount of people on board with the project as it becomes hard to control and motivate a larger amount of people.

Throughout this whole time my job was just to be on top of my emails and influence interest in the project and see who i could get involved. Ed Wellman had agreed to mention our full project proposal in one of his lectures the week after the trip to remind the students of the project. I made it aware that i was going to organise a meeting that week to introduce myself informally to anybody interested so we could further make arrangements for the project and make clear who was able to help with music.

Unfortunately my email did not reach Ed early enough which was my fault; therefore, nobody turned up to the meeting scheduled.