one side of gallery, - approx 42m - (speakers positioned behind tall white wall boxes)
Undercurrent – sound work – Driven, Fieldgate gallery, 2007.
Undercurrent: the car as a vehicle for sound; the bass emitting from the sub-woofer of a passing vehicle heard travelling through the gallery.
Deep bass vibrations moving invisibly through the city. You feel the sound as it passes you. An invisible physical presence. An undercurrent of the city. The bass is so overwhelming, the car’s primary function as a vehicle that transports from A to B, is no longer its role. Navigating the city, tagging its territory as it goes, it is transformed from its original purpose.
6 bass speakers
Minimac at one end of the room, running logic express. 6 channel fire wire sound box.
Repetitive loop of 40 mins of 7 tracks set at random intervals with random silence between tracks.
Tracks were randomly selected to begin at either end of the room, and each track ran the length of the room.
Room approx 42m.
7 hip-hop tracks were selected for their heavy bass quality; including
P. Diddy,
Snoop Dog,
Ying Yang,
and 50 Cent.
With assistance from sound engineer Tom Gillieron.
Coriolis (2009).
The work Coriolis relies on the misconception known as ‘coriolis’; the idea that water whilst draining, turns in different directions dependent on whether sited in the southern or northern hemisphere.
Existing in material form as a dubplate recording of water draining in the northern hemisphere, hence anti-clockwise, the turntable, playing the dubplate clockwise, effectively eliminates the recording. Dubplates have very limited durability – they begin to loose the sound quality after 30 or so plays and are completely eliminated after approx 1000. What remains, a token almost of the artwork, is the empty vinyl disc. Equator coinage, maybe.
The work is available for purchase as a limited edition at Campbell Works gallery – www.campbellworks.org.
Unknown Unknowns - Campbell Works 05.09.
