A live performance work combining analogue 35mm slide projection, field recordings, drone composition and live vocal assemblage.
Presented at CAC Late, City Art Centre, Edinburgh (2025), the work centres on a projected red triangle functioning simultaneously as geometric spotlight and political signifier. The sonic environment layers field recordings of crows, flies and chains with a sustained sampled drone of the 'fear frequency' and the progressively decaying reverberation of the performer’s voice, producing an acoustic field structured around persistence and dissolution live. The sung text is constructed from re-composed fragments derived from songs by Sunn O))) Sinead O'Connor and Karen Carpenter, interwoven with original writing and phrases drawn from online subreddit forums.
Through the interaction of abstraction, environmental residue and networked vernacular language, the work examines how minimal visual form and attenuated sound can register affective and geopolitical charge within live performance.
Output Type:
Performance
Additional Information:
Duration: 15 minutes.
Presented within a curated live programme at CAC Late alongside works by Calvin Z Laing, Len Goetzee, Davide Bugarin and Angel Cohn Castle.
Uncontrolled Keywords:
performance art, analogue film, abstraction, sound art, drone, field recording, vocal assemblage, politics, networked language, live art
Media of Output:
Live performance with analogue 35mm slide projection and multi-layered sound composition