DESCRIPTION:
domestic appliances project #1


This is the first of a series of installations dedicated to the exploration of the musical and architectural potential of everyday domestic appliances - realised at the Arthur Sykes Rymer Auditorium at the university of York, Heslington, UK, @ the 28th and the 29th of June, 2009.

A domestic freezer has been selected as the only sound source. Using a variety of carefully selected and placed contact microphones, coils and other transducers (mainly custom-made), sounds from the machine are amplified and projected into the auditorium - achieving both an exploration and an expansion of the machine - to develop a composed sonic environment.

Sound here operates on an architectural level in competition with the Freezer' s corporeal presence and by enacting areas of different sonority within the auditorium. This provides visitors a ready-made sonic environment for them to experience, an opportunity to wander inside it, to explore it and define their own individual pathways through the work their unique encounters with it.

Questions of site- and time- specificity of the work arise due to the highly-referential nature of both the found-object and its accommodating space, this might introduce a conceptual aspect to the work. But the physical presence of the Freezer, the carefully composed soundscape and the individual character of the auditorium, are evidence that it' s not about A freezer into A space, but about THIS very Freezer into THIS space and the-artist' s own interpretation of how they can interact together and merge.

**The sound on the movie was recorded using high quality sennheiser binaural mics (so do listen to it using headphones), but unfortunately it is really impossible to capture all the physical elements of sound and re-create the experience of wandering within a such a piece**

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