Name: CONSTRUCTION 001 by EKM Works
Duration: 8 min 44 s
Description: Performed by the London Graduate Orchestra - 36 piece ensemble - 13th September 2017 at St Leonard's Church, London.

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This is a piece created by Duncan Chapman from recordings of forced rhubarb growing at David Westwood & Son rhubarb farm, near Wakefield. You can hear the rhubarb buds popping as they burst and also some mud as we squelched around in the dark. The audio has been cleaned up as much as possible to remove the sound of both the M62 and M1 motorways which are nearby!

A mass of popping rhubarb - forced rhubarb growing at DWS Farm

Students: 

Bay Lin
Nana Bang
Yiming Gong

Boundary is an XR project for defining the personal sonic boundary. Consisting of a VR interface and physical installations, it enables the orchestration and performance of acoustic environments from the VR user to the audience.
 
Ever since the industrial revolution, the world we live in has been widely perceived as acoustically polluted. To overcome “the sound-as-noise cultural barrier”, the project incorporates both VR and performative installation, engaging in the topic from the interactive art perspective.
 
The real-world acoustic and spatial environment were translated into a compound VR scene, with an underground level and a street level. The two soundtracks were the field recordings from both underground stations and streets in London reinterpreted into part of the VR interface and performance. As the user shifts the walls through the sound sources, the sounds are activated or filtered, defining the boundaries in sound and space. The constantly changing sound and boundary composition become a performance with the audio kinetic installation, sharing the personal sonic boundary with the audience.

Boundary Street Mix

Student: Daphne Chu

This project is the 'afterglow' of an occupant's impact in space, both physical and perceived.

The installation allows viewers to consider the difference between tangible physical space and perceived space from sensory perception, light and sound. We can be physically present in a space, but our minds constantly switch between and disconnect from different perceived spaces.  

This project combines both the material and the immaterial to represent the dynamic of people's living experiences across differing spaces, both physical and digital. The room is reconstructed using light and sound, creating a constantly shifting perception of fluid space in constant flux, responding to the behaviour of the occupant. The direct and indirect energies of light and sound switch between each other, creating a series of immersive spatial experiences. The impact of the initial energy of sound gently fades into indirect reflections and fades out, being replaced with light, illuminating the site and creating the 'afterglow'. Direct light flattens three-dimensional objects and frames the structure of the space, while indirect light leaks out subtly to imply the edge of the space. When viewers step into the room, the afterglow of their impacts alters the space they are present and shapes sensory perception.  

video at: https://www.instagram.com/tv/ClokjRutLCx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

AfterGlow

Student: Kieran Harris

Earthen Sound explores the relationship between sound and matter through the design of resonant clay vessels. The project is inspired by ancient sonic uses of clay and the local historical significance of the material to London.

Adopting a materialist conception of sound as a primordial flow of matter and energy, a Sonic Flux, the project sees the design of ‘Listening Bells’ - clay vessels which, when imposed upon a landscape, generate unique recordings intrinsically tied to the materiality of their time and place.

Computational design methods are paired with ceramic 3D printing in the creation of the Listening Bells. Working within the traditions of the clay vessel as a sculptural form, their geometries express ideas around noise, flux, and change.

The Listening Bells perform an iterative recording process, revealing the continuous mutual conditioning of the physical properties of the vessel and the sounds surrounding it. Sited within the Lower Lea Valley in East London, a place of significant change over the years, these recordings can be seen as convergences of geological and historical flows within the stratum of the sonic flux.

Earthen Sound

Students: Ziyue Wang and Alicia Waibel

Hypernature reveals the fragility of our sound ecology through an immersive audio-visual experience. The evolution of a natural soundscape based on the effects of global warming is simulated.
The project is based on speculative data that shows the evolution of a forest under human-made climate change. Changes in localised meteorological conditions and associated foliage densities directly affect bird song, leading to an adaptation of new communication typologies.
The project represents emergent soundscapes with twelve synthetic birds in a spherical coordinate system, moving around a listener. Simulated bird song changes through adaptive frequency modulation synthesis, the output is an audible evolution in site specific communication.
The interaction with the virtual landscape and the subsequent change in sound are a metaphor for human intervention in the landscape and on avian communication. The user experiences the future soundscape in a direct and immersive manner.
Hypernature demonstrates the impact of environmental change on a soundscape. The design project simulates a change and effect that is normally intangible due to the vast timescales of natural evolution.
 
The sound changes from 1. Forest sound 2. Low impact 3. High impact 4. Regeneration/ Extinction

Hypernature

Student : Ding Yue

Solitude has been represented in art in many different ways, from Caspar Fredrich's wanderer to Hopper's Night Hawks; introspection has fascinated artists for centauries.
'Soliloquy' is a new installation that builds on representations of solitude, using mixed media and film, the work externalises an internal monologue, allowing a spatial and temporal response to ideas of isolation and solitude.
Sited between two opposing screens, the occupant is aware of sounds moving in space, generating a mirror to the real and the imagined. The observer is conscious of being in the expanded field of the work, immersed in the moment, standing on their own stage, witness to their own play.
Computer modelling and rendering express the scenes in a cinematic narrative language, panning the camera to create a spectator's perspective, and surround 3D sound to bring about an immersive experience - such seemingly separated experiences are in fact a mutual mapping of the external and internal aspects of personal perception.
In the poetry of solitude, one's understanding of the connection between oneself and the environment becomes multifaceted and nuanced.

Soliloquy

Students: Xiaoting Tan & Meiyi Jiang

Trees are communicating and sharing information right under your feet, using a mycelium network: a complex and collaborative structure that has become known as the ‘Wood Wide Web’. Trees use the mycelium as pathways to connect, feed and communication with one another. Parent trees can identify their relatives and send signals and nutrition through mycelium networks. Through the mycelium network, the forest becomes a single organism with group intelligence.   

Symbiosis is an exploration of the language of trees from a non-anthropocentric perspective, and mycelium is a design collaborator. Five handmade bio-electrical sensors are placed at different locations in Epping Forest, transmitting data on the mycelium's vital activity (electrical signals) in real time to the exhibition space via a cloud-based network. This is an immersive audio-visual experience, the changing soundscape represents the whisper of the mycelium, and the flowing light presents the nutrient transport between the mycelium. In this project, we hope the audience understands the world from the perspective of the rhizome, has a dialogue with the forest and lives in symbiosis with nature.

Symbiosis

Performed by the London Graduate Orchestra - 36 piece ensemble - 13th September 2017 at St Leonard's Church, London.

CONSTRUCTION 001

Performed by Crash Ensemble at New Music Dublin 2019.

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