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.