AIR Performance
Phantom Acoustics – Reimagining the urban experience through an experimental field recording practice
by Martin Kay
Phantom Acoustics looks at environmental sound recording and phonography based compositional approaches in relation to Kay’s own sonics arts practice. In this presentation, Martin will talk about the technical approaches and conceptual methodologies that underpin his practice – discussing the various sound recording technologies and experimental techniques he employs to render abstract and unusual aural encounters in order to stimulate fresh awareness and understandings of everyday inhabited spaces.
Following this talk, Kay will present a live diffusion of recent Stadium work, which explores the phenomena on mass cheering from a range of aclustic vantage points in and around the MCG stadium in Melbourne, Australia.
Bio
Martin Kay is a sound artist and designer who primarily utilizes unmixed and unedited environmental sound recordings to create audio montages and compositions that explore the intersection of architecture, psychoacoustics, social dynamics and place. Through employing a technologically limited (recording focused) work methodology, Kay is driven to find inventive recording techniques that re-contextualise his surroundings as well as inspire fresh and idiosyncratic compositional approaches pertinent to the places, situations and events he engages with.
Lostgens’ Artist Residency Project 2016
Date
17th Dec 2016
Time
8:00pm
Venue
Lostgens’ Contemporary Art Space
