Gallery 46 proposal:
USE FOR GALLERY 1
Tech Specs:
-4x GENELEC Speakers
-2x Cone Speakers (4 inch)
-12x Contact Microphones
-1x Strobe Light
-1x Projector
-2x thick, black curtain
-1x 12-Channel Mixer
Concept/Form:
The installation will be a multi-dimensional, interactive experience designed to provoke, dazzle and disorientate.
The receptor will pass through the black curtain, which will be separating the cave from the rest of the gallery. As they do this, the processed, spatial sounds of rain and water (constant loop via raspberry pi4), emitting from two miniature cone speakers suspended above the doorway, will quite literally wash over them, introducing and marking themselves to/with the space. An intermittent, colour-changing strobe (placed strategically in the left alcove), along with projected (placed strategically in the right alcove) black and white, disorientating and at times abstract (muted) videography (220m wall), will be the only sources of light for the audience member, with the natural light from the window blocked out with another thick, black curtain. In each of the four corners of the room, suspended GENELEC speakers will be emitting a plethora of sounds, with two sets (Right Front, Left Back) producing a number of carefully collected, appropriate field recordings (playing on a one-hour loop via the raspberry pi4), whilst the other two sets (Left Front, Right Back) will be exuding the spontaneous, processed, live sounds being received from the contact microphones, which will be jutting from each of the four walls in the space. These particular sounds will be a direct, processed playback of the receptor’s interactions with the room. The twelve contact microphones will be fed through a small 12-channel mixer, placed directly in front of the blacked out window, acting as a substitute in its own right.
I have been exploring, over the past few months, the prospect of making my own sound-based climate, manipulating a space to make my own, tailored environment. For the chosen space to exist on its own, separate from the rest of the world. I have a large obsession with mythology and symbolism and the notion of caves, labyrinths, disorientating, puzzling naturalistic settings have been woven into almost every ancient culture imaginable. I love paying homage to my interests and influences so to create my own interpretation of such a prolific mythological device is almost an honour to me.