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installation
as opposed to standing at one sweet spot.”
The view from inside the massive propeller
testing on a smaller, ‘model’ scale. Within this, McIntyre- Burnie created a four-channel mix using Tannoy Precision 6.4s (“with their lovely bottom end”) video projection and a three- channel exterior atmosphere. Film material featured a loop of a drone beetle fl ying, slowed down to a fraction of its normal rate. The music McIntyre-Burnie composed (featuring breath
of the male voice choir and a recording of a bass player from FSO playing his 5th string, down to 30Hz, within the Q121 wind tunnel) suggests the study of fl ight can lead to darker paths. There are no nightingales to ease this journey of the mind. Emerging into the third main space, the visitor is met with four tallboy-sized Tannoy speakers from the Prestige range - high-
end and somewhat expensive Canterbury and Kensington GR models (“60kg a piece!”) – stood atop original wooden aeroplane inspection towers. These were arranged so they “deliberately disrupt the quadrophonic circle and instead encourage people to listen through the architecture”, says McBurnie. “I wanted people to explore how sound moves off walls and bounces off windows,
The piece used recordings the sound designer made at Brighton’s West Pier concert hall with veteran sound recordist Chris Watson (formerly of Cabaret Voltaire and latterly David Attenborough’s sound man) using an array of Sennheiser 406 and 416s and a pair of vintage 110 mics. Prior to its collapse into the sea, the pier was a massive roost for starlings, says McIntyre-Burnie.
“Studying their murmuration
fl ight and morphing this with a sonic study of its sister pier’s
In the fi nal room, rollercoaster meets starling swoops through premium Tannoy cabinets
rollercoaster, we asked the question, do birds ever fl y simply for the thrill of it?” The result, as PSNEurope moved around and through the space, was as if to take wing with the swooping and soaring of the birds – or was it the rattling and screaming of the coaster and its passengers? It was certainly a dynamic and thrilling ride for the senses which deserves to be re-housed and enjoyed elsewhere. Here’s hoping another sponsor jumps onboard soon.
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