
Peripheries
A site-specific, multichannel sound installation created for Marshgate, UCL East, the work invites listeners to deepen their presence in the everyday environment through enlivening perceptions and enhancing awareness.
Featuring a minimalist polyphonic choral composition drawing influence from venetian choral music, cori spezzati, (broken choruses) voices call across the vast atrium space, with solo voices serving as coordinates to define the reverberant open space.
Interwoven within the composition are field recordings taken from the building itself. Lysergic and eerie, these processed recordings play with psychoacoustic perception and liminal listening perspectives, enlivening listeners to the sound and space around them.
A unique array of 16 speakers arranged across 6 floors of the building, transform the architectural space into a resonating body, encouraging an embodied exploration of the space to create a dynamic composition and evolving listening experience from multiple perspectives.
Peripheries was created for 16 speakers installed at Marshgate UCL East. The 16-channels have been mixed as 3rd-order ambisonics and subsequently decoded binaurally, listening with headphones is recommended.