Sound installation using atmospheric and VLF sound  made during artists residency at Oboro, Montreal.

Wild Intimacy:  Sound to Light

Remix of live VLF performance at Concordia University's "Fourth Space".

Forrest VLF The Fourth Space

This piece, Sonic Thresholds (ConnexiONZE), was made for a collaborative performance series initiated and organized by Montreal based artist and curator Kimura Byol.  The file available here is a remix of material and techniques used in the live performance. I first recorded audio samples outside Kimura’s window, where all the performances in the series took place. In my performance, I wanted to both attend to and vibrate this threshold that separates inside from outside, with tactile transducers attached to the window. This made the the window into a kind of speaker – and in a subtle sense enabled passers-by to hear it "speak". The window is also a mirror that enables us to see our perceptual habits in action, making strange and open the  limits of recognition. Contact mics attached to a two meter stick and to my hand were used to trace and sonify the boundaries of the performance area, the window frame and the body. These forms of indirect touch make perceptible through sound the distances and limits that demarcate place, self, and other, and through amplification and processing, vibrate and begin to tremble and question these categories.

nik forrest