| field spray, (for Soliton '99) |
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| Installation Music ...think of the vegetable display at the supermarket and the small jets of water that spray the produce to keep it looking fresh and clean.....field spray provides a sound field for spaces of transit; the corridor and the doorway. Speakers are mounted at and above average head height creating a sound field of music for the split second that it takes to walk through the corridor, or doorway . The listener experiences music made from samples of tape hiss and electronic noise and which transforms the two dimensional doorway/corridor into a three dimensional horizon. |
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| Never Look Up (NLU)
was originally created as a sound installation for Lopdell House Gallery,
Auckland. Three sound sources played through 4 pairs of speakers in a wide
corridor like space. "Discovering the work has nothing to do with listening to what the artist has composed or inserted into the landscape. Above all, it has to do with discovering our own ability to listen and be involved, to experience the sound and substance of this landscape, to measure the volume of our own place in it." Denys Zacharopulos on the work of Max Neuhaus. [more] |
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| I asked four friends,
scattered in different cities, to record eight 45 minute segments of continuous
city sound-documenting one day in a city. The segments build up an audio
picture that spans the day and night. On receiving all the tapes a day was
spent playing back all the sound (from 10am-4pm) at various locations in
Auckland. Bangkok played back in Brazil Cafe,K'Rd- Berlin hung from a sign
outside Artspace gallery on Quay st, Edinburgh hung over the footpath at
the other end of K'rd, Melbourne played outside the C.P.O in Queen Elizabeth
square. Other cities’ sounds mixed unnoticeably with Auckland city sounds.
At 4 points in the mass mix that makes up our urban sound environment there
was an accent, a microscopic pinpoint. A signalling place within the landscape. That evening the tapes were re-played in the same space (Artspace on Quay st) as part of the first Relay event, Transmission. Four hanging tapedecks created much the same kind of sound as we would hear in most developed cities. |
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