On Mediating Space, Sound and Experience: Interviews with situated sound art practitioners2/14/2022
Some time ago now (just before the pandemic in fact) I was interviewed by Nicole Robson, a PhD candidate in Media & Arts Technology at QMUL and a composer, musician and researcher exploring site-specific artworks. It was a nice afternoon talking about the process of making site-specific sound works along with the terms for those involved - us as the makers of this work (my answer was 'an assembler, an aligner of things') and the name for the 'audience' ('participants' for me mainly). I was one of nine interviews alongside other site-specific / responsive artists working with sound: James Bulley, Alex De Little, Roswitha von den Driesch & Jens-Uwe Dyffort, Sebastian Kite, Emma-Kate Matthews, Gerriet K. Sharma, Jeroen Vandesande and John Wynne. Nicole together with co-authors Nick Bryan-Kinns and Andrew McPherson have brought this together in the journal article 'On Mediating Space, Sound and Experience: Interviews with situated sound art practitioners' in Organized Sound journal. Their study has identified artists as mediators, 'transfer[ing] their own situated and embodied listening to that of the audience and develop[ing] sonic and staging devices to direct perceptual activity and listening attention' (p1). Plus findings that '(2) the audience has an active relationship to the work; (3) the artwork shapes behaviour and perceptual experience; and (4) [the] engagement challenges.' (p3). This is a really nice study of the formation of situated / site-specific sound artworks. It has also been a nice opportunity to reflect on my own practice and research since Feb 2020, of how my 'site' of the body has expanded to include other people's bodies, interweaving an 'audience' as participant even more so. Have a read of the paper online here, or email me for a copy: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/abs/on-mediating-space-sound-and-experience-interviews-with-situated-sound-art-practitioners/4616FE17A193E086E9EF53B54F888589   The exhibition has been extended!! On now until Jan 31st 2022.
Head down to Finsbury park to experience the Peoples Park Plinth exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery. Three site responsive mobile artworks are live now till Jan 31st 2022. Just take your mobile phone and a set of headphones and head to the gallery in the centre of the park and to check out our work, 'We are just animals, humans and machines getting on together in specific lifeworlds', by Hannah Kemp-Welch and I. Peoples Park Plinth: www.furtherfield.org/peoples-park-plinth-2021/ Image © Hydar Dewachi Huge thanks to Francesca Oldfield for shooting this video of our mobile app work 'We are just animals, humans and machines getting on together in specific lifeworlds' by Hannah Kemp-Welch and I. If you cannot make it down to Finsbury park to visit the work in situ, this is the video for you :)  Very excited to announce our new artwork, a collaboration between Hannah Kemp-Welch and I, commissioned by RCA's curatorial collective Breath Mark and Furtherfield Gallery. Live in May & August 2021.
Full details here Research and training trip. November 19-21, 2015 To Locus Sonus for their Mobile Audio Fest, as a part of my role at CRiSAP. http://maf.locusonus.org/  |
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