COLOUR CHOIR: PY

Colour Choir is an audio-visual installation from artist & musician Jade Pybus (Py), developed in creative partnership with, Ross Tones, Silent, and longtime Radiohead collaborator Andi Watson. Using a full spectrum of coloured light and 3D sound, this sensory experience explored the relationship between voice, colour and space.

Each night, Py performed live with every note and harmony of her voice visualised through 13 light sculptures placed around a railway arch, representing members of a choir. During the day the installation was open to the public. Visitors were able to interact with the installation and create their own arrangement of vocal harmonies, creating a choir of colour and sound, reinterpreting Py's story.

All music composed, produced and mapped to the space: Py and Throwing Snow.

Code and software: Andreas Müller

Production: Electric Theatre Collective and One House Studios.

Funded by Arts Council England.

Where The Voice Exists : Jade Pybus

'Where The Voice Exists' was the first surround sound composition and performance installation from artist Jade Pybus.

The composition was created using a series of internal and external exercises to expose the voice in its extremities. Eight speakers and monitors where suspended in a circle at head height enclosing the audience in 360° sound and visuals for the duration of the performance.

The work investigates the relationship of the voice and space it is projected into. A conversation between numerous voices, including the genre specific, the internal, the external, the ethereal, the ugly voice and the beautiful. The notion of disguising and manipulating empowered by the need to discover and filter thoughts, much like the idea of consciousness and  'Thinking before you speak'. Explored through the appearance and disappearance of text, the recorded voice and its dialog with the live voice.
Influenced by the work and writings of Steven Connor 'Dumstruck: A history of Ventriloquism.

MICROPHONE / MEGAPHONE: THE SERPENTINE PAVILION

Microphone/ Megaphone; a collective choral poem installation, created by Es Devlin. To celebrate architect Frida Escobedo’s Serpentine Pavilion, a sound installation was created to compliment her subtle interplay of light, water and geometry.

The sound of every donated word was analysed in real-time based on pitch, duration and volume and in response, a unique choral sound response was heard. Each spoken word passes through a poetry-generating algorithm, trained on twenty-five million words of c19th poetry. From each word, the algorithm generates a two-line poem which is gathered into a cumulative choral work formed of human and machine-generated voices.

After five hours of collecting words from the public, the final audiovisual piece bursts into life, with vocal melodies soaring and building into an elaborate choir, immersing the audience in a forest of spatial sound and generative poetry. 

In collaboration: Es Devlin & The Serpentine

Code: Manabu Shimada

Production: Res.lab