Sonic alterations of constructed space

With Ivan Cheng, Barbara Campbell, Brian Fuata and Jess Olivieri

Wed 9 April: Building 6 on Cockatoo Island

Sunday 4 May: Cathedral Square, outside St Mary’s Cathedral (parallel to College Street)

Wednesday 7 May: Building 6 on Cockatoo Island

Wednesday 4 June: Building 6 on Cockatoo Island

Sunday 8 June: Cathedral Square, outside St Mary’s Cathedral (parallel to College Street)

Since 2011, a series of informal performances have been carried out in a multiplicity of public sites, using steel rings that measure 1m in diameter and which weigh 10kg each. These rings are spun upon their own axis upon a flat (usually concrete, sometimes wooden) ground. The spinning of the rings generates a set of overlapping rhythms and discontinuities. A sonic field emerges in the physical relationship between the steel of the rings and the materiality of the ground upon which they are spun. The sonic field that is generated temporarily seizes the space in which it occurs, repositioning these sites from their familiar function to becoming sound-generating surfaces.