sound booth
Sound Booth.Performance at Abasement, an experimental series at Max Fish.
Explanation and footage from Eyebeam's Music Factory.
2012
When I was making my first recordings, I went to great lengths to soundproof my room where I was recording, not only so that I wouldn't pick up sound, but also so that my roommates wouldn't be able to hear it. I'd take the mattress off of my bed and put it up against the door, then crawl into the mattress-less bed with all my equipment and record with a quilt over my head.
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The Sound Booth takes that experience and brings it to the stage. It's been constructed so that the performer can't see or be seen, but can hear what's going on around them. A microphone inside the booth feeds into an amplifier which is some distance away, obscuring the source of the sound, but over-amplifying the inside of the booth, which picks up the quietest and most internal sounds. This gives the viewer the sense of losing spatial sound.
Performances:
- Performance Anxiety, at Chinatown Soup, January 30, 2017.
- Abasement, at Max Fish, January 9, 2017.
- Performancy Forum: Sonar and Semblance, at Panoply Performance Laboratory, November 19, 2015.
- A Refuge, at Panoply Performance Laboratory, March 15, 2014.
- Make Music New York, at McCarren Park, June 21, 2013.
- Music Factory, at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, December 8-11, 2012.