My approach to the sonic domain has always been informed by a Sculptor’s perspective which emphasises the experiential nature of sounds, linking them to the dynamic, material events that produce them and situating them within the environments that contain and propagate them.
Transformer installed at the Sculpture in the Valley Festival 2025.
Transformer would appear to disqualify itself from the definition of Sound-Sculpture by virtue of its apparent muteness. The principal function of the work, however, is to manifest an aura; a low-energy electro-magnetic field, drawn from the atmosphere by the primitive antennae, which then flows through the coils that encircle insect larvae, embalmed in honey. These simple technical devices resonate in an infinitesimal manner and thus in it’s own way the work sings.
One of our principal oversights is to demand that nature exists only by virtue of our sense organs, we are like infants, carelessly assuming that events which we cannot perceive do not exist. What the ear fails to hear is therefore mute. Perhaps these are Sound-Sculptures, which like much in our environment, are simply inaudible!
