Wired for Sound

4 August 2007

Wired for Sound

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The auditory possibilities of the Adam Art Gallery were explored in Wired for Sound, a night of performances by two established sound practitioners.

Interpreting the Adam Art Gallery’s unique architectural features in terms of acoustics and sound, Wired for Sound, held on 4 August 2007, immersed audiences in a fluid sonic environment that reflected and articulated the fractured and labyrinthine qualities of the gallery spaces.

By stroking lengths of thin piano wire fastened to the interior walls of the building, Alastair Galbraith, a Dunedin-based experimental musician and artist with a growing international reputation, transformed the Adam Art Gallery into a hollow-bodied musical instrument that sang the myriad resonant frequencies of each of its spaces.

Prominent Wellington-based sound artist, Antony Milton, utilised the individual spaces of the gallery as separate sound boxes for a variety of instruments that he played centrally, sending leads out from a mixer to a speaker in each room. Milton’s performance created a dispersed and de-centralized sonic environment that accentuated the acoustic properties of each of the gallery spaces.

Wired for Sound was the inaugural event for Sound Check, an exhibition and performance series at the Adam Art Gallery that canvased the history of and current directions in sound art in New Zealand.