Listening Back Ahead Up and Down
A night of performances and sound installations, and a retrospective installation of SONO.
BABALOLA YUSUF
Explores relationships between painting, sculpture, sound, film, and language. Central to the practice is empathy as a method of making and listening, where distinct forms remain fully themselves while becoming responsive to the language of another. Through exchanges between materials, sounds, images, and people, Yusuf considers how meaning emerges through reciprocity and transformation. Sound and music are integral to this inquiry, where intimacy becomes a form of knowing: melody and percussion carry the imprint of one another, remaining distinct while becoming permanently transformed through relation.
BEN CHERNETT
Using the sink to control field recordings and drones, chance based sequences to generate bass lines, voices and chimes,
EMMA KATE MATTHEWS
Presents a performance using gyroscopic hat developed as an interface for live sound control. Head movements are processed as control data, allowing the performer to navigate and manipulate sounds in real time. The work constructs an ecosystem of physical gesture, spatialisation, digital processing and acoustic resonance, exploring how movement can perform both an instrument and the space it inhabits.
ETHAN ALLIN KIRBY
The phenomenon of the mackerel run hits the shores of Hastings at least once a year, where, in the warm weather small bait fish come to the shallows to feed drawing frenzied mackerel that herd them toward the shore. In this feeding frenzy the mackerel thrash around and leap out of the water breaking the surface causing the water to look as if it were boiling. This piece is an attempt to capture some of this spectacle whereby mackerel and whitebait are translated into pixels on an LED Matrix, along with their own sonic representations being generated in real time as they gather and move in shoals, it crescendos as the mackerel start to chase the whitebait, before it begins again. A snapshot of a vastly complex ecological system procedurally generated on a small microcontroller.
SONO RETROSPECTIVE
Interviews, thoughts, and images about SONO. What it was, what it might become, what it could be. Previous participants share their experiences and the impact of SONO on their practice. Audiences are invited to share their own voice to the constellation to dream the project into the future.
SONO RETROSPECTIVE
Interviews, thoughts, and images about SONO. What it was, what it might become, what it could be. Previous participants share their experiences and the impact of SONO on their practice. Audiences are invited to share their own voice to the constellation to dream the project into the future.