Year : 1996
Sound-sculpture installation located in two sites.
Exhibited.
The Muu Galerie, Helsinki, Finland and at the Cholera Basin, Helsinki Harbour 1996.
Materials.
x2 Bronze Bells, x32 Voltaic cells and electronic circuits, audio equipment with ISDN telephone line. Zinc wall texts.
Dimension.
Gallery installation :- 6m x 6m, Harbour installation :- variable.
Year : 1992
Exhibited.
As part of the Working in Public project, John Barrett-Lennard and ArtSpace
Sydney, 1992.
Materials.
Steel Bell, Performer, Radiophonic Broadcast.
Dimensions.
25m x 12m overall installation ~ performance space with Nationwide live broadcast at Midnight for 21 days.
Year : 1984
EXHIBITED
Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK (1984)
MATERIALS
Section 1, Vessel elements: pit fired/blackened earthenware.
Section 2: -
Pillars: wood and metal-lath armature with raw clay cladding (air dried).
Section 3: - Vessel/lamp elements: copper foil, stoneware; paraffin lights.
DIMENSIONS
Overall floor Coverage: 14m x 8m (112m2)
Section 1: - Max. linear dimension 20cm (x220 elements)
Section 2: - 3.30m x 1.20m dia. at base (x2)
Section 3: - Max. linear dimension 25cm (x26)
Section 4: - Image 3m x 2m
Theoretical papers often quote Plato’s Cave – such a nice, primitive dawn of consciousness image, with its shadowy representations flickering sootily across the cave’s rear wall and the line of onlookers warming their backs by the fire! Strangely there is scant mention of the crackle of burning wood, or the sounds of those protagonists prancing around the flames, not to mention the perfectly formed sound reflections returning from the cave’s surfaces. With a moment’s contemplation it should be clear that the ‘captive audience’ seated in the cave would have understood significantly more from their audio environment than from the appallingly low-tech visuals!
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THE SOUND IN THIS SITE
It is ironic that the website of a Sound Artist contains very little audio material. This is, of course, intentional, the principal reasons being that I place a strong emphasis on the experience of a work in-situ, mediated as it is by the environmental context and the listening trajectory of the viewer/auditor. Secondly, the majority of these projects are multi-source environments, often operating with interactive or dynamic elements that are virtually impossible to represent as a linear stereo field.
A method I have adopted, that in some part overcomes such problems of Audio representation of complex sound installations, is to develop parallel Radiophonic projects. These Radio works are designed to give a general impression of the content and intention of the Installations whilst recognising the linear and more narrative form of stereo broadcast.
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Architecture is frozen Music.
Goethe.
Stone is frozen Music.
Pythagoras.