Site-Specific Installation

“Site - Specific Installation”

A site-specific work, that juggles with the displacement of sounds, simultaneously exploring the perception of (a particular) space and displaying the musicality of our nature and urban environments.

This work is an exploration of several concepts that have been at the core of my practice for the past three years.

The text that follows will indicate the theories that I aim to explore with this piece.

When listening to sounds in the context of their everyday environment it becomes increasingly more difficult to acknowledge them. This matter occurs because of sound cacophony, individual and communal life pandemonium

and also because we listen to these sounds always in the same surroundings.

It is been my interest for sometime to remove sounds out of their usual context to present to the individual (listener) with the opportunity to properly engage with these sounds.Although, by dislocating them I not only wish to draw attention to their characteristics but also to the fact that these characteristics alter depending the surrounding space, therefore alluding the attention towards the inherent relationship between sound and space.

As Sound Artist and Writer Brandon Labelle beautifully describes this correlation:

“Sound performs with and through space: it navigates geographically, reverberates acoustically,

and structures socially, sound amplifies and silences, contorts, distorts, and pushes against architecture:

escapes rooms, vibrates walls, disrupts conversation; expands and contracts space by accumulating reverberation, relocating place beyond itself, carrying in its wave, and inhabiting always more than one place: it misplaces and displaces; like a car speaker blasting too much music, sound overflows borders. It is boundless on the one hand, and site-specific on the other. “ It is this paradoxical and chaotic interaction between sound and space in conjunction with the role of the individual (listener) in the perception of this relationship,

that has me increasingly fascinated and that I wish to explore in this work.

We Are Pleased To Announce

"1867" Returns to Rich Mix Retrospective Season

18th-20th February 2010

By Theresa Roche, Directed by Saima Duhare

http://www.afridiziak.com/theatrenews/reviews/review-1867-brockley-jack.html

www.richmix.org.uk / Bookings 020 7613 7498

THEATRE PLAY

1867 A new play for Black History Month

Inspired by the story of Madam CJ Walker -

(First Self-made African-American Woman to become a Millionaire)

By Theresa Roche, Directed by R.Victor Willams

27th-31st October 2009 at the Brockley Jack Theatre
Book tickets now on: www.ticketweb.co.uk Tel: 0844 847 2454

Info on: www.brockleyjack.co.uk www.myspace.com/1867-bhm

EXHIBITION IN ENDELL STREET, COVENT GARDEN

From the 19th of October until the 30th of October as a continuation of the collaborative project "This is Why We Meet", "Get a life" will move into a gallery space with a different approach, concept, context and tittle. I will keep you informed on the progress of this second phase, but for the time being check the following link for more information:

http://www.thisiswhywemeet.com/index.php?/teams/london-college-of-communication/

GET A LIFE- Interactive street platform

http://www.thisiswhywemeet.com/index.php?/teams/london-college-of-communication/

ABOUT "GET A LIFE"

Get a life was a live platform set up on Hanbury street in London
which invited the public to experiment with social participation and human dialogue using different kinds of communication and allowing people from all over the world to interact and be part of the platform.

How people engage with odd scenarios?

We were playing with dolls in the street!

'Get a life" is part of the collaborative project "This is Why We Meet", supported by Nokia, between Laura Vent from the creative agency Wieden+Kennedy, the independent designers Pat and Trevor and the University of the Arts London. Each college of the University of the Arts had 1 week to come up with an interactive installation that would bridge the gap between two window displays situated in Hanbury street in London Brick Lane. Check out the link for more information on what myself and other 2 girls from London College of Communication came up with.

http://www.thisiswhywemeet.com/index.php?/teams/london-college-of-communication/

LIFT INSTALLATION - March 2009

LIFT INSTALLATION
BY

IWONA MAKUSZYNSKA AND CATARINA DE CHABY

Most people are not aware of the variety of sounds that a lift can produce. Piezo transducers, electromagnetic and binaural microphones have been used to record the lift's soundscape. The sounds are than amplified and played back through a pair of speaker drivers that are placed inside the lift in order to enhance its sonic space.
The position of the speaker drivers was carefully chosen as to make the sound fill up the space in an effective way.The sounds have been adjusted in regards to each speaker cone frequency response.

Speakers without enclosures are used mainly because they aesthetically merge with the elevator's space.

We chose the lift because this small enclosed space has an interesting acoustic and soundscape that can be intensified by the amplification of its own sonic space.

THEATER PLAY "I'M A LONDONER"

I'm currently collaborating with Alberto Sanchez on the sound
design for the above theater play.