Locks (2013-14)
Locks is a performance-based system that utilizes specialized audio transducers combined with signal processors
and custom software for the restructuring of temporal, spatial, and spectral elements within audio recordings.
These audio recordings are both short term (within the timeframe of the performance, of seconds and minutes) and
long term (gathered outside the performance context, in the field, spanning hours, days, months). Locks centers
on instrumental bricolage and indeterminate latency. The performer organizes found objects in, around, and
between numerous, resonant metal vessels; and approaches this construction in a percussive manner using a variety
of actuators. Objects include DC motors, rubber bands, spring clips, sticks, brushes, strings, metal washers,
clothespins, and more. Several audio transducers, each routed through a different signal-processing network, pick
up the sonic actions. The performer acts by situating musical gestures in the future, unable to precisely know in
the present moment how the signals will be altered by the audio network. This work was included in the exhibition
Unsold Art at Factory 593 (2013 Seoul, South Korea) and performed in New England club venues.