Sound installation sketches (dying starfish dialogue)

Sketches 1&2 would use the speaker pictured below.

Setup 1 The audience is sat in a chair behind a curtain, this will increase the intimacy and attention they give to the sound work. The lighting is two spotlights to increase the drama of the space and heighten the sense. The speakers hang from the ceiling and sit at head height, the audience is meeting the sound.

Setup 2 Does a similar thing to set up 1 but having the audience stood up, in a larger space gives more freedom for them to walk around the sound, again giving them another perspective on the work and a choice to move into the shadows of the space that not in the spotlight.

Setup 3 This sketch is an adaptation, which uses speakers on stands, I can test this set. up in the studio at ECA.

New sound work (dying starfish dialogue)

Sound work for a 5 channel installation, currently untitled. There are 4 tracks, 1 is stereo and needs 2 speakers and the others are mono so require 1 speaker each.

LISTEN HERE

Conversation with dying Starfish: ideas & references

Project design idea

It's a dialogue

Where are we going?

A dialogue with the Starfish and me through sounds

Travelling through the sand and out into the cosmos

A conversation with a dying Starfish

A multi-channel sound installation. Place the listener inside the sound spatially – speakers like that used in Susan Hiller's work 'Witness', hanging from the ceiling. Translucent speakers, delicate.

Is this a video work? Is it just sound?

I will use the voice and edited field recordings for this work. Why the voice? There is an intimacy with the voice that can be achieved better than other instruments, it comes from the person, it's sensual, it's unique to the person it comes from. Whispering, chilling.

Residency at The Burnished, Bamff Eco-tourism in Mid March with George Finlay Ramsay

I've recorded sounds whilst away on residency that will make up the sound performance. I've started editing these sounds.

Some sounds in development:

Could be one of the 'voices of a Starfish' (click to listen)

Travelling through down into the beach? Dialogue with dying starfish (click to listen)

Playing with communication - voice work (click to listen)

Writing is a part of the process of this work, it also is feeding into my audio essay about ecological intimacy and meandering. Updated writing from Fieldnotes

Read here

References for the sound performance

'Technological Phantasmagorias I, II, III' at Tramway Glasgow in 2009 (can't find the image)

Samuel Beckett 'No I' 1973 staging

Bjork's keening track 'Ancestors'

Susan Hiller's sound installation 'Witness'

Which I saw/experienced at the Tate in 2011

susanhiller.org/installations/witness_video.html

Paulina Anna Strom's track 'Marking Time'