2006, Filament Traverse Theatre

A new version of Filament was comissioned for a staircase in Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre. The installation ran from 29th October to end of November 2006 as part of Traverse Cubed, http://www.traverse.co.uk/show_detail.php?id=398

As audiences head down to see a play, the copper wire curtain is switched on and will pre-mix sounds extracted from play rehearsals.

On the 29th October, there was a live performance projected into the theatre.

This project was supported by http://www.7hings.co.uk, an online music distribution podcast.

2006, Filament [Copperwire] Hall in Tyrol, Austria

In a successfully functioning city, communication networks such as telephone and internet are seamless, controlled and hidden from view. Filament exposes these communications, offering them up for reconfiguration via an interactive curtain of raw copper wires.

Hall Akustika has positioned microphones at sonically interesting and locally significant sites around the city of Hall (There are 7 other sound installations happening at this time). The soundscapes are sent to a server which then feeds the sprouting curtain in the Platzl, a cafe square in the centre of the city.

As wires in the curtain are crossed, circuits are closed, releasing sound into the Platzl. Different sounds of the city are connected with one another in randomly chaotic order.

The curtain serves two purposes; providing a musical performance interface, with coffee drinkers looking on, meanwhile exposing the potential of network communications to cause misunderstanding and complexity through the physical mechanism of crossed wires.

The screen is very sensitive and will react to the slightest impulse, even from wind so the copper wire screen could also be thought of as digital wind chime.

A radio programme about Hall Akustika was made for the Kunstradio show, aired on Sunday June 11th at 11pm.
http://www.kunstradio.at/2006A/11_06_06.html

Some press information online here;
http://www.tirol.com/szene/innsbruck/38713/index.do

Press for Hall Akusika here;
http://www.tinpark.com/files/HallAkMedien_06.pdf

Network Map

8-10 June 2006, the Tyrolean branch of the ICMC www.ignm-tirol.at hosted Hall Akustika

www.hallakustika.at

Thanks to Hans Soukup and G√�nther Zechberger.

Special thanks also to ACCESSORIES 4 TECHNOLOGY LTD who supplied USB dancemat interface boards for the copper_wire terminals at cost.

2005, Landscraper, St Pölten, Austria

Landscraper was comissioned by the Upper Austrian Museum Betriebsges.m.b.H. in April 2005. The piece ran from April - November 2005 at the Klangturm in St Pölten.

A live camera feed from the top of the Klangturm is piped to the installation in real-time.

The image is analysed for colour content and this data is used to create a spectral envelope over sound sources collected from around the sound tower, ranging from outside to sound from other installations.

Visitors sit on interactive cusions to trigger sonic and visual interruptions to the state of the klangkugel

The view from the camera is disturbed by the actions of people sitting. Visitors watch this on the small TV monitors.

This is a shot of the klangturm from below on the night of the opening

The installation in use inside the klangkugel (sound ball)

1999, Spool, Edinburgh

Spool was created in July 1999 with Sound and Media artist Pedro Rebelo. Reel to reel tape machines stretched tape across the gallery and sound was generated as the tape shuffled unpredictably across the tape head.

1999, Reflext, Edinburgh

Reflext was created in collaboration with Naomi West and Pedro Rebelo and presented in the Matthew gallery on Chambers Street in Edinburgh, 1999. The project involved two mirrors, web camera and sound.