converse • a collaboration for ‘countertext 2014’

 

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a collaboration with Mandy Rathbone, David Rogers and Nigel Slight for ‘countertext 2014′ taking Steve Reich’s 1968 “pendulum music’ piece as a starting point. This piece included a performance of suspended microphones hung over speakers creating phased feedback. This was an exploration of ‘process’ sound generation incorporating indirect strategies for composition.

these experimental sound ‘instruments’ play with indirect strategies including pre-recorded sound and ‘live’ interactions in the studio.

all these soundworks recall a ‘converse’ interaction between ‘living voice’ and constructed sounds, eg. wood pigeon and a wind turbine, conversational rather than polarised.

 

 

 

http://divacontemporary.org.uk/2014/11/12/open-studio-electricbackroom-countertext-2014/

w a t e r b o d i e s : The Fourth State of Water: From Micro to Macro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CCA art gallery, Torun, Poland

curated by Victoria Vesna

 

song

PVA MediaLab  Bridport

video installation

This video installation develops the cultural themes of the feminine, water, transformation or the mythical ‘shapeshifting’ capabilities of creatures like the ‘sirens’ and traditions of their danger to men; how this has impacted on romantic perceptions of stereotypes and the personal experience of femininity. Glass and salt are used as symbols for the seductive, fragile, dangerous, and ultimately life – giving fluidity of water.

http://artscicenter.com/waterbodies-ex/node/142

last record

last record is a collaborative project between ivon oates, a visual artist, and jane margeson, a classical musician, responding to the architectural soundscape found in the burton cliff hotel, soon to be redeveloped.  the work was made during a labculture residency organised by pva medialab, the producers of this work.

the tracks were recorded in the ballroom space, the kitchen passage and a bedroom/bathroom annex, and include imaginations drawn from our own backgrounds in architecture and music – references to gabriel fauré’s ‘berceuce’, angel v. villoldo’s ‘tango criollo’ and j.g.ballard’s sensational “stellavista’, ‘high rise’ and ‘atrocity exhibition’.

Ballard’s notion of ‘psychotropic homes’ profoundly prefigured architectural ideals of ‘intelligent buildings’ of the seventies and later.

architecture, as sonic space, layers the building’s history in parallel with the landscape. the ‘uncovering’ of imagined sounds echo the scouring away of sedimented rock to reveal underlying records over time.

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