Audio Foundation is pleased to present a concert of spatial activation of our two gallery spaces by exhibiting artists Jess Robinson, Eamon Edmundsen-Wells & Sean Martin-Buss.
Jess Robinson’s reflections/connections is an interactive installation which encourages visitors to explore an environment using sound. Microphone and loudspeaker pairs are situated throughout the gallery in a tangle of wired connections, creating an unpredictable acoustic environment. Materials consist of scavenged and borrowed sound equipment, including some of the Musical Electronics Library. On arrival, visitors are offered small sound-makers and encouraged to use these and their voices to engage with the space.
This work connects viewers to space, situating them alongside other gallery visitors amidst the sounds of their collective making. The gallery acts as a meta-instrument, facilitating these sounds and connections, with a character of its own. Visitors are prompted to listen deeply, and be thoughtful about how they add their voice to an unfamiliar space at particular times and locations.
As it draws out connections among viewers, Robinson’s array of receivers and emitters is at the same time integrated with Pipe Dream, an installation in the room adjacent for compositions and improvisations exploring resonances in columns of air. This pairing creates a hyper-instrument of acoustic and electronic connections which will be activated in an improvised performance on Saturday 27 July.
Pipe Dream, a new work by Eamon Edmundson-Wells and Sean Martin-Buss’, is a modular acoustic surround sound instrument which dis/integrates the air, and moves it in swirls and eddies throughout the space. A prototype of this instrument was first performed at the Audio Foundation as part of a performance by the rudimentary music ensemble “The Essential 5th Element”.
Over time the instrument has developed significantly in size and scope. Pipe Dream combines brass pipes, garden hose, and brass and woodwind instruments with projected video, and an eight channel sound work made during the development of the installation.
