Sonic Garbage is a sound art installation accompanied by a single performance. It is a multichannel piece which is built using the choroechoic compositional technique. This technique has been developed by the artist and initially introduced at the piece Wunderkammer: Sound cabinet of curiosities, which was presented at the Audio Forensics sound art show in 2008 at IMT Gallery in London.
The piece Sonic Garbage is inspired by the idea of recycled materials that are used for artistic and not only purposes. It is an effort to appreciate those unwanted artifacts for their aural qualities. The useless becoming useful, the ugly duckling turning into a swan, recycling materials used in a creative way, and parallelism of isolated individuals who reclaim their role within society, are just a few interpretations of such an artwork yet the aim of the artist is to provide the opportunity to the audience to decide which way they would like to appreciate the piece.
The installation itself is minimal in regards to visual elements as the purpose of the piece is to trigger the aural awareness of the audience. Eight active loudspeakers will be positioned within the provided space taking advantage of the architecture and following compositional rules in regards to characteristics of the sounds; high pitched 'thin' sounds will be higher in space rather than 'heavy' base sounds so that in a way space itself works as an stave and the objects as notes.
The single performance which will take place during the opening day of the exhibition will be a live demonstration of recycling sonic garbage and creating a concrete composition using these materials. Due to the importance of the meaning of acousmatics, the artist will perform the piece behind a curtain, or blindfolds will be provided to the audience. This suggests that the important element is the sounding result rather than the image or the activity of the performer. This way the audience will be encouraged to focus on the listening experience since the visual elements will have been minimized.
The performance will be recorded live and then reproduced at the gallery space through a headphone system and will be on exhibition for as long as the installation will be in a separate section. The purpose is to demonstrate the use of sonic garbage in a creative way in both space (installation) and time (performance-recording) dependent formats.
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