Weight & Sound

A collaborative project initiated by Emily Shepherd in conversation with Thomas Leyland-Collins, Fiona Teresa Keenan, Benjamin Parkes, Amy Pickles, Adam Scarborough and Alison Joan Stockwell

Featuring familiar objects, found objects, and work by Ragnar Jonasson, Helen Shaddock and Alison Joan Stockwell

Can we interpret sculpture through sound?

What does this bring to our experience of sculpture?

Weight and Sound seeks to investigate these questions, not to arrive at a definitive conclusion but to open up this idea as a line of enquiry, an interpretive tool for discussing sculpture.

Through considering an object’s spatial and material qualities and interpreting these through sound, the project emerges as an alternative to traditional methods of interpreting sculpture, creating sound experiments that serve to alter the viewer’s experience and offer new avenues of exploration.

Urgent Call for Sculptures!

A collaborative group of artists, musicians and enthusiasts are investigating the notion of weight and sound in objects, considering sculptural forms in terms of their weight, and what this weight or mass may sound like.

We need art objects to demonstrate this notion and are seeking large, mixed media objects. The sculptures do not need to have any reference to sound or produce any sound. The objects will be displayed in a usual exhibition format with their sound accompaniments (the results of the investigation) accessible to visitors via headphones.

The objects will be exhibited on the 2^nd and 3^rd of March as part of Sound Thought – A Festival of Sound, Performance and Research at the Arches, Glasgow, early March 2012.

You will be required to install and de-stall your work. To submit works please email weightandsound@gmail.com with a brief outline of your practice and provide images.

Deadline: 9^th February 5:00 pm 

Sound Thought: ‘Weight and Sound in Sculpture’

I am looking to work collaboratively with a group of artists, musicians and enthusiasts to investigate the notion of Sound in Sculpture. The outcome of these to be exhibited as part of Sound Thought – A Festival of Sound, Performance and Research at the Arches, Glasgow, early March 2012.

As an alternative method to better understand art objects, ‘Weight and Sound in Sculpture’ will consider sculptural forms in terms of their weight, and what this weight or mass may sound like.

Through regular focus group sessions we will discuss and demonstrate this notion. These will ultimately come together in the form of an exhibition; producing a series of sound works as accompaniments to sculptures.

Sessions will commence in Glasgow on Thursday 12^th January and will run every Thursday for eight weeks 6:30pm – 8:00pm. To apply please outline your interest in the project and give brief details of skills and/or experience that you feel relevant.

Email: weightandsound@gmail.com

Deadline: 9^th January, 2012

first of the month.

15.11.11

I’m beginning to think Orford Ness is too exciting.

I’m bombarded by its fruitful history and this makes me spin around.

Today this snippet of information has made me giddy:

“the Orfordness transmitting station is located on the peninsula and it broadcasts BBC world service across the North Sea to Western Europe and Radio Nationaal to Holland. The site and building were previously used by an experimental military over-the-horizon radar known as cobra mist.”

so much choice

it keeps tugging on my sleeve!