last week, Dr Tweendale was talking about how throughout history humans and sort shelter and safety in building structures. These structures now offer their own threats.

Awareness sound physicality

We wanted to make an environment where the viewers are made aware of others sharing the indoor air of the shared environment.

With room capacity in mind, we would have a sound track that increased or decreased in scale and intensity depending on how many people are sharing the rooms atmosphere.

The installation

Suspended, moving speakers are hung in grid formation from the ceiling.   A pool of round focused light on the floor underneath each one captures the shadow movement’s. Giving a visual layout of the sound overhead.

 

All sound is off, As a viewer enters, a speaker will active with sound and movement. This repeats as each new visitor enters until all speakers are playing. Mirroring this build up of people, the sound track starts soft and somewhat gentle,  as more visitors enter, more speakers will active, each time with a more dissident / noisier tone, so that when all speakers are sounding the volume of will be a dense, atonal mass, in turn having a physical effect on the visitors making them feel  like they want to leave.