The Materiality of Sound
This research project explores the sonic properties and phenomenological experience of sound in different materials; the effect of shape and structure on sound activation; and perspectives on materiality in creativity.
Gallery visitors experience a sound installation through funnels (ear trumpets) combined with antlers into sonic sculptures made of glass and plastic laboratory equipment, in order to compare their experience of each.
This extends the work of the 1960s Light and Space Art Movement (LAS) by adding sound to experiments with light and materials. The viewer is encouraged to immerse in the work over an extended period, changing the personal mechanisms of perception over time, in a rejection of the distractions and anxiety of current day “always-on” communications.
The research is being developed into an installation; whilst the acoustic outcomes informed the sound design for subsequent series of work.