6 mini sound sculptures (for the rooms in your house)
Video. 2021.
Variable dimensions. 4 minutes and 28 seconds.
Photo by Paul Litherland.
"As a child I had wanted to become an automobile, but then I grew up to be thirty years old."
-Russell Edson
Filmed at the artist's home during the covid 19 pandemic, 6 mini sound sculptures (for the rooms in your house) explores the hidden musical and sonic potential of everyday household objects. The 4 minute and 28 second video consists in 6 vignettes ( and 1 epilogue) each set in a different room of the artist's home and featuring a different sound sculpture made from objects native to that room. Deliberately low-tech and easy to reproduce, each vignette invites the viewer to see familiar consumer goods as potential musical instruments. As such, the work attempts to democratize the act of musical creation—making its necessary materials house hold supplies nearly accessible to everyone.
Of the work, the artist has said: " 6 mini sound sculptures... represents my attempt to use play, imagination and humour to deal with the monotony, restrictions and isolation of the pandemic. Yet despite my efforts to keep things light, the absurdity, tension and frustration many of us felt during that time also creeps into the work, in various subtle ways."
The work comes in two formats:
1 - A single video file in which each vignette plays one after another on a single screen (as seen above).
2- Seven video files in which each vignette plays on a seperate screen (as seen below).
Photo by NM Ryan