MutedNiobe is an artwork with sound which was made in response to working with the feminist HerNoise archive at LCC/CRiSAP. It plays on the ideas of archiving as a form of death and of suffocation and presents a gendered item with gendered sound. A cake, in state of gentle decay, beneath a clear Perspex box: a specimen for examination. Inside the box, accompanying the cake, is a tiny mini-speaker playing a track – on repeat – that is also contained within this glass prison. The track plays, but those outside the box are intended to be aware of a limit on their listening, the sound filtering from behind the barrier of the Perspex walls.

MutedNiobe plays on the nature of the archived HerNoise exhibition, housed under restricted viewing conditions at CRiSAP. The highly gendered ‘living, progressive’ entity rests under lock and key, repurposed as research tool. MutedNiobe embodies its specifically female and vital nature, placed beyond real engagement. Encased are the voices of myself and my mother baking the cake in April 2012, discussing feminism and motherhood.

MutedNiobe was exhibited at the MA Sound Art Soiree ‘Jack Harris a Retrospective’ in July 2012 in the new Gallery at the London College of Communication.

MutedNiobe

What Did You Do Last Night? (2012)
This piece was my first exploration into sound art as a form of composing. I had been given an assignment as part of my MA in Sound Art that entailed 'reviewing' a show or a piece of art or an exhibition in sound. 
I had been playing in a musical every evening for four months in London and decided to give a re-view of the show as I experienced it every evening (and matinee!), as opposed to the show that the punters saw and heard on their arrival at the theatre. It comprises field recordings of my travelling, of the voices of those around me, the sound of the show through my cans (headphones) in the pit, the MD whispering into my ear through cans during the show, the click track at points, the road outside, bar noise and front of house show-sound. The result is a 'viewing' or a 're-viewing' of the show through different ears.
It was premiered on Resonance fm on July 23rd 2012.

What did you do last night?

This was an exploratory piece devised during one week at Dartington International Summer School while on a bursary for Dominic Murcott's composing for voice course 'Chatterbox'. A wooden 'Chatterbox' seat was installed in the grounds of Dartington Hall in Devon for the duration of the festival. Myself and fellow composers created works for this seat during our week using voice as our starting point.
I spent this week re-exploring logic audio as a tool and also focused on my own interest in the voice as a tool. 

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