We are Still Here: Sonic Landscapes
My virtual exhibition at BasementArtsProject is now open. I have created a virtual gallery to resemble the basement in which the exhibition would have taken place if there were no restrictions. Bruce Davies of BasementArtsProject has meticulously photographed every nook and cranny of the basement, which I have transposed onto the walls of this virtual gallery. It looks and feels a little like an early 00’s computer game with dodgy pixelated graphics and walls that you can walk into if you get the wrong trajectory.
This will be my virtual residency space for the next month. The work I create in there will evolve continuously throughout as and when I receive new submissions through the open call.
I have received just a handful of submissions so far, although I know that there are quite a few brewing behind the scenes so I am expecting in the next week or so, the sound map will really start to take shape. As it stands, if you visit the virtual gallery you will see and hear some fragments of the collaged sound map. Fragments of people’s drawings and some modified and layered audio recordings. This is mostly experimental at this stage, but I am aiming to work both image and sound into some form of narrative, that the viewer can be led around to guide their experience of the work.
One really cool function of ArtSteps, is that you can layer images on top of each other. I’m not sure this is the intention, but if you hover an image protruding from the wall, you can layer it over another. I’m hoping to build the multi-layered collage in this way. Likewise this multi-layering can also be done with sound. There are three possible layers of sound that can be played simultaneously. I am going to play with this so that it is possible, as a viewer to create your own sonic experience by choosing the layers. It is limited to 4mb files so I’ve got to be selective, but that is also part of the fun I guess!
Here is a link to the exhibition
https://www.artsteps.com/view/6005a5698f0ea7402fc44184
