Just returned from exhibiting Freddy's Story in the Installation Zone at this years Sonic Arts Network annual Expo held in Brighton. The highlight of the festival for me was "Horatio Oratorio" -A concert & sound installation by Aleksander Kolkowskiaka & Recording Angels held in Brighton's Jubilee Library. The work comprising of specially made wax cylinder and disc recordings, including recreations of some of the earliest speech and music transcriptions, played back over antique Graphaphone, Phonograph and Gramophone players was exceptional. Without wanting to sound trite I experienced something like an emotional epiphany as these rare audio gems crackled back to life through a forest of vintage horns, restoring the art of recorded sound back to its true elevated state, as a treasure trove of remnance in a world dominated by visual art. Also worthy of a mention was Dawn Scarfe's "Lenses" another sonic gem from the Darlington born Goldsmiths graduate that explored pitch and resonance using different sized glasses, each with their own speaker to propagate the same sound at their own unique frequency, acting as sonic lenses.
HORATIO ORATORIO
DAWN SCARFE'S "LENSES"
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