Resonance is one of those ideas in science that people really seem to dig. The idea that if you sing at any object (a tree, a person, a piece of sheet metal) in exactly the right manner, it will sing back to you the secrets of its internal structure. This notion serves as the starting point for Space-Shifter, a new sound installation by Sonia Leber and David Chesworth.
In the work, disembodied voices are hurled into the installation space to bounce off walls and floors then inhabit the pieces of sheet metal arranged to lend them voice. They’re then shook off only to find another piece with a different structure to possess. In this way the voices become more and more dispossessed from their corporeal origins and gain their own character influenced more by their unique journey through the piece than by their utterer’s intentions, for some reason that’s an idea really resonates with me.
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