DESCRIPTION:
"Residuum" -- 100 gold cassette tapes, housed in a unique individully hand made plastered and painted box, with pointer card and a hand stamped segment of an original 1960's hand blocked print of William Morris wallpaper.

Originally a commission for the National Trust at the Birmingham Back To Backs, "Residuum" was a collection of unique sound pieces that explored, reflected and exposed the hidden layers of the history contained in each house.

This collection of 5 sound pieces explored the notions of, layers and echoes of the architecture and personal histories of the Back to Back properties which where inhabited from the 1840's to the 1970's. Sound Artists Justin Wiggan and Darren Joyce (Dreams Of Tall Buildings) have created unique sound pieces which have a symbolic connection with the layering of materials seen in these houses, the many layers of wall papers, the original coatings of lead paint and stripped back plaster, to re expose in sound the history to it's first use as a new space, a home, a dwelling to it's last inhabitant.