The Convergence series
When movement, gaze and sound converge there is a feeling that happens in the body. It is sensory, and it is pre-cognitive. My work is focused on this feeling, and how it can connect us to something outside of ourselves and make us feel expanded.
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The Opening Series
Supported by Arts Council Wales.
FEEL
Where we look affects how we feel.
This is an experiment in using the flute as the gaze and the voice as the sensor of space. The flute carries the movement of the gaze and the voice senses the space that the gaze orients towards. The space is felt and translated into sound. This piece investigates the relationship between gaze, sound and the sensing of space by the body.
Below is a little snippet of the video and audio.
Notes: FEEL
(Gaze & Voice in space)
Down: Defensive submission/contraction. Mono, no reverb. A droning monologue with nonsense content that cannot travel anywhere. Underneath a voice that is trying to travel.
Transition to centre/ahead: A travelling and a movement through space. Going somewhere: Chorus.
Centre: Clear, stable, medium loudness. Some space. Grounded and sensible.
Left: Suspicious orienting
Right: Curious assessment
Upward: Unstable possibilities
Outward: Grounded expansion with space and a relationship between the space and gaze and voice.
Earlier Work
A moving plastic bag, captured on wood using silver gelatin process.
Clockwork and music box electronic orchestral.
EP
Electronic folk pop
Archive
Songs published by Leopard Music Ltd: Hammer & Chisel, Cold. Song written for RPG game ‘Please Stay’ Ltd. 2014.
Visual Art: ‘Deciduous’, silver liquid emulsion on wood (2007).
Installation: Fingerprint in the Grass (2003), HayVend (2005), Making Words Exhibition : ‘The Book Ends’ (2006).
Community Arts Practice: Arts and health projects including work with the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and NICE, 2003–2008.