'Gesture 7.2a' from 'The Joy of Loss'

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Tech week - Day 2

Today was spent installing the eight-channel surround installation with Jason and Blair.  Eight Mackie SR450s are now suspended from the three grids in The Block, running out of a PT8 session.

After some fairly minor adjustments and tweaks, I am really pleased with the way audible and infrasonic sound is travelling within the space.  In conjunction with the sound from the air and fire installations, and the live music performance (which will be in rehearsal from day 4 - Thursday), the sound component will be rich, layered and spatialised in the way I had envisaged. I am entranced by the behaviours of carrier waves within the space as they constantly shift and collide resulting in a changing pulsation that is sometimes heard, but more often felt.

Genine spent much of the day fraying the edges of the polysheen, softening the edges of the machine-cut fabric. Whilst this added warmth to the interlocking layers of the projection, the artefacts of the frayed edges proved distracting, so we have gone with the relative purity of the straight edge.

The marketing meeting scheduled for today has been moved to tomorrow, giving me a chance to start setting up the performance rig for final troubleshooting in preparation for the rehearsals on Thursday and Friday.

Again, I've taken a few photos of the work as it unfolded during the day...




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