Lines of Flight, 28th Oct 2023
Lines of Flight is a biannual, experimental music festival held in Dunedin. I performed an iteration of The Distance Between, which was the next step on in the work I presented at Koputai Sound School, and the performance aspect of the final installation work that was presented at the Audio Foundation in Auckland in May 24. Here I have reworked the composition and incorporated the 20m long stainless steel band that was part of the final installation. The steel band enclosed the audience and created a sense of spatialised sound as the transducers resonated the surface with the sounds of beaches. One beach from the Shetlands and one from the West Coast of NZ
Koputai Sound School, Feb 2023
This is a short video amalgamation based on my 20 minute performance from the opening night of the Koputai Sound Schhool (KSS). KSS was a series of tutored workshops focusing on sound over the space of two weekends in February 2023. This performance was presented at the closing night event as a work-in-progress as I developed the work for a gallery based installation.
It is based on my family’s journey from the Shetland Islands to Karamea. The steel plates resonate with the sounds of a beach from the Shetland Islands and a beach from the West Coast of NZ. I also perform a composition utilising those sounds and others from both places. The composition finishes up with a recording taken from the damp and tree filled cemetery where my great grandfather was buried in Karamea.