Swarm & Murmuration
Mon, 02. Sep 2013
RMIT Design Hub
Level 8 Building 100, Cnr Victoria and Swanston Street, Carlton
Level 8 Building 100, Cnr Victoria and Swanston Street, Carlton
FREE
Swarm & Murmuration aims to merge the orientation of the artist and the audience. Situated in and around the patrons, a large group of performers slowly build a singing, buzzing cloud of tones with the use of digital tone generators (provided by smartphones). At the cloud’s peak of intensity, the performers move about the space, waving the tone generators through the air as they go – the movement of the phones will create subtle shifts in the pitch relationship between each individual part of the cloud of notes, creating a swarming, undulating sonic entity.
Artists
Atticus Bastow
the audience was encouraged to move through the space at their will, so as to personally rebalance the piece for themselves