13:43: Soundscape (2020)
audio loop, korg analogue synth
duration 45:05
13:43 is the moment that this plaster was exposed to rainfall on the 19th August, 2020. The surface, as it sets, records a brief moment of time.
The cast has been mapped by a custom crater-recognition software, based on one usually used to count impact craters on a celestial body. This data, when read left to right, can act as marks on a score, and so translated into sound. The raw data is run through an analogue synth, producing an ambient soundscape with the same literal information ‘elapsing’ in time rather than ‘stored’ space.
The idea of the score speaks to the performative nature of the work; the outcome refuses to be purely representational. While an orientation is decided, no stave is imposed; height determines pitch, radius determines volume, horizontal position denotes time.
Install view
13:43: The Large Cast was cast on-site at PS Mirabel, Manchester to create a site-specific work for the exhibition flat instance. Sound in collaboration with Rhys Mills for coding and Jon D’Alton for production. The rain project has been running since 2019 as the expression of a research-led practice model currently under development.