Oscillation
Oscillation is an audio-tactile installation which incorporates a 32-minute music and sound piece. It is a soundtrack of a human life, from death to birth, and documents the seven ages of man: Infancy, Childhood, The Lover, The Soldier, Justice and Old Age. The sound content includes live instrumentation, found sound, location recording, spoken word and sampling and manipulation of existing music sources. The installation consists of seven large pillars, each representing a phase of a person’s life. Each pillar emanates a different colour light- red depicts birth for example, and each column also has a varying number of slits cut into it. These can be read as scientific in nature, i.e. the number of slits being determined by genetic coding. Overall, the desired effect is immersive, ambient and ambiguous, open to personal interpretation and reflection. Spoken, emotive utterances that speak directly from each age are layered through abstract soundscapes, creating a space where loss and hope; nostalgia and premonition and all the complexities and contradictions of life and death can be mused upon. Throughout the work, abstract and literal are juxtaposed, from the chaos of the playground to the liquid drift of death, invoking a dream world of fleeting consciousness and ethereality, where a whole life can pass backwards in the space of just half an hour. Commissioned by PVA Media Lab, UK and the Royal National Institute for the Blind 2001 Swipe media festival 2001 PVA Medialab 2001 Watershed Bristol 2001 Daily Constitutional 2008
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