Traction Sub Bass for a new project

This week I managed to get to Manchester Met. University to meet with Dr Toby Heys (Digital Technologies Research Fellow, Research Centre, MIRIAD, Manchester School of Art) and begin work on the Furniture Music Project (working title).

The project has been developed by Toby and will start with a sound installation at the LEVEL Centre on the 29th of April 2017. Furniture Music is based around creating sound at the edge of, and just beyond, our (human) sensory perception. To do this Toby has been working with some bespoke speakers and had just taken delivery of a TRACTION Sub Bass - see images below.

Toby (Left) & Myself (Right) with the Traction SUB

Contexts 2015 Festival, Poland

I have just completed Pulse - a four chanel sound installation for Contexts 2015, Sokolowsko, Poland - organised by IN SITU and curated by Małgorzata Sady.

SUB Installation at Manchester Met University

The 2008 version of the live video performance entitled SUB, was installed at Manchester Metropolitan University for a day during October 2014. SUB was used to demonstrate the potential of a mobile gallery/installation space within future projects, festivals and events connected to the University [For more info about SUB - see below].

The Mobile Gallery takes the form of a large lorry which deploys to create a 25ft x 25ft space. The space can be completely dark and has programmable LED lighting, video projector points, camera points and flexible points for audio (in and out). It also has disabled access and heating for winter months.

AKT - Video Installation

Currently working on a new video + audio installation based upon images of the body in performance art events. This project is the result of a collaboration with performer and model Jojo Shaw and will be completed by the end of December 2014. Currently material comprises still images and video taken of improvised live performance events at the Studio @ Via Gellia, Derbyshire and in two rural locations.

Projects for 2014

Over the next few months I am looking to develop some of the projects listed below. These are in early stage development and thought I would use this blog site as a means of sharing information throughout the process.  As each project grows (or dies) I will post the new details here. I am particularly keen to make contact with people, organisations and artists I do not currently know and hope that sharing information at an early stage may stimulate interest and new creative opportunities.

Some Images from the first Trajectory Installation

Images taken by Dave White & Lucy Stevens at the first Trajectory Installation at the Richard Attenborough Centre for the Arts, Leicester University, November 2013.




IMAGE: Dave White