Attendant Materials Video

Here's a video representation of our split screen version of the installation with one of the screens showing the pit in action

Project Description

Attendant Materials is a mobile platform for sound performance and recording using film as a form of graphic score for the creation of music using physically manipulated acoustic sources. Participants are invited to record sound effects using various techniques for recreating sonic events to film in synchrony with their visual correlates, otherwise known as Foley. The result is a generative audio-visual installation created by from material gathered from participants.

The mobile studio is comprised of a recording space with necessary materials and equipment as well as a customised interface, including a software platform for the real-time recording and transformation of sound and video.

The piece has been developed and executed through collaboration between sound artists Jeremy Keenan and Matt Lewis. The project is a new way for participants to engage with contemporary sound practice that allows direct involvement in and exposition to the music making process through the exploration of object’s acoustic properties. We hope to encourage and illuminate new modes of experiencing the sonic environment through the construction of a bespoke listening platform in which multiple musical interpretations of a fixed set of video clips as visual scores are displayed.

Pictures of installation at Shunt