Sea Cave Transmogrification II
Live Performance with Natsuki Oshiro
Site-responsive, interactive and ephemeral installation in the historic stairwell and attic at GlogauAIR Residency, Berlin, Germany
Video footage from Sea Cave Transmogrification I installation (see video below) is projection mapped onto two sites in the building. Gravity is subverted; the cave of the ceiling above the stairwell becomes a portal to the sea cave's mouth. Both sites—sea cave and staircase--enter into a co-evolutionary relationship, transmogrifying visually and acoustically. The architecture of the stairwell transforms the architecture of the (projected) sea cave and vice versa. The installation improvises with its environment.
Audio from the project Sea Cave Transmogrification I and Sea Cave Complex (please see videos below) is played in tandem with the projections, entering into dialogue with audio from the street. The audio works are experimental compositions exploring a sea cave’s acoustical architecture, born of the project Sea Cave Transmogrification I, in which a sea cave became a sound sculpture via wire and bow. The audio from the original sea cave installation enters into an ephemeral, improvised dialogue with live audio occurring inside and around the building. Both sites—sea cave and staircase--enter into a soniferous relationship, transforming into something new entirely.
The installation improvises with its environment. With the sea cave projected on the stairwell and ceiling, viewers entering the installation become performers in that installation, via moving through time and space. We enter into a feedback loop with the work. How do the ways we move through a space influence our perceptions of acoustical phenomena in that space?
2022
