News

15.05.07:

Resonant Space Q121 is now all over. The show was a great success and the feedback from our visitors was overwhelming! We would like to sincerely thank everyone who made it along! It's sad to say goodbye to that dark, cold and echoic space we practically called home for three weeks. Luckily, we have decided to try and put the show on again later on in the year. This time all the construction work on the site will have finished and hopefully we will have more flexibility with opening hours, etc. So, for anyone who missed it, you'll get a second chance! Also, we noticed that there was some really great photography being taken by people, and if you wouldn't mind we would love copies of your best snaps. Please send them to our email address.

07.05.07:

The site-specific work Resonant Space Q121 will be showing this Thursday, Friday and Saturday (10th, 11th, 12th of May). We will start rigging tomorrow and testing on wednesday. We have had several setbacks due to the limitations of the site, especially with power, but they all seem to be cleared up now. We are both very excited, especially as last week we got the lighting rig to work correctly with Max/MSP. Thanks to Richard and Fred at Drax for their time and help, as well as Mike Bamber at Live Sound Hire for the great PA! Hope to see evryone later this week!

01.05.07:

This work is a sonic representation of the space Q121. A space built and designed for the most efficient flow of air at speeds of up to 150 mph. The site was specifically chosen since the movement of air is a form of sound. As you walk through the space you will experience the acoustic anomalies produced by the architecture and the reinvigorated air molecules flowing through the space once more.

Q121 was decommissioned in 1996 and has sat unused, dark and silent for more than a decade. Built in 1935 it was used in a wide variety of tests on structures such as propellers, helicopter rotors and architectural features.

The method for creating and collecting the sound refers back to Alvin Lucier's “I am sitting in a room” (1969). Inside Q121 a recording was made. This recording was then played back into Q121 whilst being recorded again. As this cycle was repeated the layers of air became denser until, slowly, the space began to reveal a drone with various overtones determined by the physical dimensions of Q121. The light intensity in the space is manipulated by the amplitude of sound allowing the space to be revealed both audibly and visually to the visitor.

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