|| Reflections || MPavilion Ritual
Sound installation commissioned for the MPavilion 2018-2019 season.
Inspired by Carme Pinós’s MPavilion design and philosophy, || Reflections || is a spatial sound installation that responds to and echoes its location. The || Reflections || ritual played each morning and evening of the MPavilion season from 9 October 2018 to 3 February 2019.
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6’36’’ duration, looped, stereo sound installed in two speaker pairs in the MPavilion structure.
|| Reflections || discovers, highlights and enhances the rhythm and melody in everyday sounds, using the pavilion’s structure to reflect and focus these sounds, and weaving them into a musical chorus. I drew on recordings of the natural and urban rhythms and music of the Queen Victoria Gardens and Melbourne, composing in collaboration with the environment to create a synergistic, hyper-real experience of place and space. Drawing out the rhythms, the sounds build into music then the whole piece shifts, as a typical Melbourne rain shower moves us into the evening, fading back into the sounds of birds and people in the spaces surrounding the Pavilion as night falls.
|| Reflections || is an invitation to engage in deeper listening, to waken our ears to the rhythm and melody in the sounds that surround us.