The Dream of Charles Allis (binaural, headphones required)

An installation for the Charles Allis Museum's 100th anniversary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Castings, graphite, found objects, photographs by Martha Glowacki

Audio/sound design and video projection by Alexander Boyes

Located in the former bedroom of Charles Allis, first president of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, the Dream of Charles Allis recalls the hum of industrial production that may have echoed through his mind as he drifted off to sleep, transposed to present day where nature has begun to reclaim the cavernous factory spaces that 100 years ago were bustling with human activity.

Multichannel soundscape created from recordings captured in the former Pabst brewery bottling plant in downtown Milwaukee in 2011.