Sonic Body

The Sonic Body entered the Celeste Prize Competition in the Installation/Sculpture category.

vote at : http://www.celesteprize.com/artwork/ido:27246/

The Sonic Body was presented at the Move Festival ( ExpoCoruna ), in A Coruna ( Spain ) from the 13th to the 16th of November 2008. The festival was great and we met some really interesting artists with different backgrounds and vision. There was some good pieces, especially Arabesque installation by Peter William Holden.

Sonic Body mark up for the placement

inside the fair

unpacking

Sonic Body and Artists

inside the Sonic Body

Sonic Body finished

inside the Sonic Body - entry

TV interview for miraxes

bird view of the fair

lighting tubes

working table and SB Shapes

filling the installation

in construction

in construction

please take your shoes off

Video

We’ve put a video together to show the Sonic Body in action. It’s short but gives an idea of the installation. Of course you don’t really get all the atmosphere, the feel of the fabric and the depth of the surround sound.

Sound

We also did some recordings with the idea of doing a DVD using 5.1 surround sound, This is one segment of the recording, but merged into stereo. You have a background layer made of a sub rumble which have a slow evolution. On top of this you will hear most the different sounds that was triggered/generated by the person in the Sonic Body.

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Pictures

“The looped results (of the sonic body) are addictively danceable mutations of minimal techno. As science looks ever outward, it seems culturally significant that such alien music would transmit from the internal network of our very bodies.” David Michael Perez, from My Body, My Discotech, review of the Sonic Body in Rhizome

The installation is finished and on show at Blank Gallery, Brighton until November 8th 2007.

Gallery entrance

Gallery view

Gallery view

Queuing for the installation

Entrance

Inside the installation

Inside the installation

Detail inside the installation

Recording devices