Sally Golding - Light At the End of the Tunnel

A shifting live performance exploring the ‘noise’ of light and sound, balancing film projection and mixing desk investigations.

Punk aesthetics treading the ground of industrial noise and sampling culture form a nebulous of light and sound which envelope the audience in the performer’s antics of ‘liveness’. Over a cacophonic disruption of plundered library horror sound effects and music samples hand printed as an optical sound collage onto filmstrips, Golding iterates and effects live spoken vocals of typical phrases described of near death experiences, initiating a bizarre live process of sonic decay. On screen a hand creeps around rumbling classic TV ‘fuzz’, originally created by an ironic process of digital and analogue re-filming between a smartphone and a Bolex film camera. The performance is overdriven by a rotating cyan and yellow colour filter wheel and a sonically and visually pulsing strobe light. A disjunctive experience – the media is embodied, haunted.

2 × 16mm optical sound hand contact printed film loop & reel; voice – phrases of the near undead; optical Devices – laboratory strobe, rotating colour filter wheel; bodily interference

Live at Analogue Recurring, London, July 2014 / Video by Richard Bevan