spatial drone
SPATIAL DRONE PERFORMANCE: ALEX DE LITTLE AND HARRY BURGESS
In this performance Alex De Little uses a subtractive synthesiser as a tool for sculpting the standing resonances of the Oak Gallery space at Goldsmiths CCA. In the second half of the performance, a dialogue unfolds between Harry Burgess’ vocal improvisation and Alex’s installation.
This event took place on 25 May 2023.
This sonic performance was the culminating event in Spatial Listening, a one-day series of listening events presented by Alex De Little at Goldsmiths CCA.
As a response to Pilvi Takala’s solo exhibition On Discomfort, these events engaged with Takala’s playful negotiation of invisible social codes of conduct. Spatial Listening stems from De Little’s ongoing project that seeks to create sonic relationships between individuals and their architectural environments.
De Little’s collective, multi-part experiment invites audiences to participate in sounding and listening as an alternative methodology of knowing, understanding and relating. As a perceptual tool, listening transforms the architectural environment from a visual landscape, rendering it instead as a dynamic time-space whose contours are perpetually modulated by sounds as received by listeners.
BIOGRAPHIES
Alex De Little is a sonic artist and researcher based in Leeds and London, UK. His practice encompasses installation, composition, performance and workshops; it is concerned with the interrogation of listening as a way to understand environment, self, and social relations. Alex’s work and collaborations have been featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Tate Modern, Somerset House, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Health Museum (Houston, TX), Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art (Copenhagen), The National Science and Media Museum, London Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Walmer Yard, and the Hepworth Wakefield. Alex completed a practice-based PhD with Scott Mc Laughlin and Martin Iddon at the University of Leeds and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leeds. He is a member of CAVE (Centre for Audio-Visual Experimentation) and an honorary research fellow at Goldsmiths Centre for Sound Practice Research.
Harry Burgess is a musician and writer based in South East London. He is known as the vocalist in the avant-pop band Adult Jazz, whose debut album Gist Is arrived to much critical praise back in 2014. More recently, he formed the experimental duo Offer (with PC Music’s Lil Data), published a collection of poetry and prose called Toffee Hammer, and, shared the solo work Live Scraps.
In this performance Alex De Little uses a subtractive synthesiser as a tool for sculpting the standing resonances of the Oak Gallery space at Goldsmiths CCA. In the second half of the performance, a dialogue unfolds between Harry Burgess’ vocal improvisation and Alex’s installation.
This event took place on 25 May 2023.
This sonic performance was the culminating event in Spatial Listening, a one-day series of listening events presented by Alex De Little at Goldsmiths CCA.
As a response to Pilvi Takala’s solo exhibition On Discomfort, these events engaged with Takala’s playful negotiation of invisible social codes of conduct. Spatial Listening stems from De Little’s ongoing project that seeks to create sonic relationships between individuals and their architectural environments.
De Little’s collective, multi-part experiment invites audiences to participate in sounding and listening as an alternative methodology of knowing, understanding and relating. As a perceptual tool, listening transforms the architectural environment from a visual landscape, rendering it instead as a dynamic time-space whose contours are perpetually modulated by sounds as received by listeners.
BIOGRAPHIES
Alex De Little is a sonic artist and researcher based in Leeds and London, UK. His practice encompasses installation, composition, performance and workshops; it is concerned with the interrogation of listening as a way to understand environment, self, and social relations. Alex’s work and collaborations have been featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Tate Modern, Somerset House, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Health Museum (Houston, TX), Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art (Copenhagen), The National Science and Media Museum, London Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Walmer Yard, and the Hepworth Wakefield. Alex completed a practice-based PhD with Scott Mc Laughlin and Martin Iddon at the University of Leeds and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leeds. He is a member of CAVE (Centre for Audio-Visual Experimentation) and an honorary research fellow at Goldsmiths Centre for Sound Practice Research.
Harry Burgess is a musician and writer based in South East London. He is known as the vocalist in the avant-pop band Adult Jazz, whose debut album Gist Is arrived to much critical praise back in 2014. More recently, he formed the experimental duo Offer (with PC Music’s Lil Data), published a collection of poetry and prose called Toffee Hammer, and, shared the solo work Live Scraps.
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