Taking Soundings
Navigations, journeys, maps, coastlines of sound. Three Prints and electronic sound, (9 tracks total playing time 15 minutes)
Featured Works
Taking Soundings: Anchor (900mm x 1390mm, inkjet on paper)
These images exist on the edge between a score and a map, line and sound, an event and a recording. Produced from satellite data collected by GPS of travels at sea and along coastlines, the work is “taking soundings” of position and movement. These images are the result of re-drawing those traces during a performance; as each part of the line is digitally drawn the data is transformed simultaneously into electronic sounds. The score then is being re-created, re-drawn, and so re-interpretted at the moment the sound comes into existence. These static prints become a record of a personal map, the memory of a shared performance, and encourage new interpretations by audience and viewer.
Taking Soundings: Blue Map (900mm x 1243mm, inkjet on paper)
Taking Soundings: Red Chart (900mm x 1200mm, inkjet on paper)
Exhibitions
Taking Soundings was developed during an Artistic Fellowship at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, and an Artistic Residency at STEIM, Amsterdam (2006 – 2008)
‘Tracing Mobility’, House of World Cultures, Berlin 2011
‘Ground Level’, Hayward Touring UK 2010-2011
“Possibility of Action: the Life of the Score” Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA) 2008