This video is a compilation of a 20 minute live performance by Helena Hamilton of her work ‘The Butterflies', which transforms an overhead projector into a site specific, performative sound sculpture. All sounds originate live from within and around the machine - selection, manipulation and duration of sounds are made via interaction through live drawing. This repetitive, considered visual interaction stimulates sonic variations throughout the duration of the performance.
Helena is an artist who works both visually and sonically. Her work focusses on the inherent poetry of everyday objects through exploration of interaction, reconciliation and negotiation between subject, object and environment. Themes of the everyday, simplicity and repetition are consistent throughout her works in a variety of media including sound, installation, drawing, interactive digital and performance.
Helena lives and works in Belfast. She received MA in Sonic Arts from SARC, Queen’s University Belfast (2014) and holds a BA Honours degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster (2009). She is based at Flax Studios Belfast and is represented by The Agency Gallery, London. Her work has been exhibited and performed in both gallery spaces and contemporary music/sound festivals across UK & Ireland as well as Berlin, Rome, Tokyo and New York.
Sand Songs was a program specifically conceived for the Zandmotor by an international group of interdisciplinary artists and students that have been invited to imagine this location in the terms of a musical instrument that is performed by human activity as much as by the natural elements.
Soundtrack Box No. 1 was made to produce music for a feature film.
It provided me with just as many limitations and possibilities, as I needed in order to be fully comfortable in the creative process. This video briefly demonstrates some of its capabilities. The soundtrack itself has of course more musical value.
I often have to convince my friends that the box has its own reverb and no additional effects are used. There's just an extension spring inside the box and a little contact microphone attached to it.
Now I've decided to make a new box for every film I'm asked to compose for in the future! Soundtrack boxes are fun!
Sound sculpture (related to sound art and sound installation) is an intermedia and time based art form in which sculpture or any kind of art object produces sound, or the reverse (in the sense that sound is manipulated in such a way as to create a sculptural…
Sound sculpture (related to sound art and sound installation) is an intermedia and time based art form in which sculpture or any kind of art object produces sound, or the reverse (in the sense that sound is manipulated in such a way as to create a sculptural as opposed to temporal form or mass). -wikipedia
