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A Quiet Reverie | IMT Gallery Review | 01/12/08
‘An exceptional experience for all the fullness and space it gives in the listening. A table with four clear plastic 'coffins' each containing dried materials from the four ruined sites and perched up on soil from them - leaves feathers stone shell flowers berries cones - all dry and dead but still resonating with remembered-imagined life. The 18 min 'psycho phonography' moves and moves us through a fragile deeply felt sonic narrative that for me was an oscillation of flickering images, fleeing associations and pooled moments of intense presence.
The sounds move through ‘stone’ ~ a sort echoed resonant cascade of resonating troubled air - or the noise of dust banging through ‘water’ ~ coming in soft rain which we can know and name but without losing any magic from this literal recognition and making its narrative of textured time ~ listening in to water moving and feeling both the heightened immediacy of each water soundfall and simultaneously the inexhaustible stretched out continuum of time beyond life, lives, living. Then 'wing' and the choral backchat of birdsong going abrasive and scarring and making me think of living systems of immortal species as the uncaring witnesses to human insubstantiality and transience. Then through 'blood' ~ a swelling of sound rushing throbbing bringing up a sonorously chiming alarm coming through a crackle of rainfall that I first took to be fire ~ and lastly 'mouth' ~ we hear an echo of monks chanting or perhaps just the endlessly repeated prayers echoing back to us from the stone and then a slow ebbing abandonment into pulsating absence,and I hand over the headphones emotionally charged and emotionally changed.’
Mark Trezona | Performance Marks
Mark Peter Wright aka Hands of Sand is a sound artist whose work spans installation, performance, music and film. With a particular interest in phonography/field recording and concrète sonic ingredients, the works often concern themes of; silence, memory, inner worlds, solitude, artifact, listening and the land.
Marks latest work 'A Quiet Reverie' - an audio exploration of site, solitude and perception was premiered recently at the IMT Gallery London. The work is available in Book + CD format. Click here for more info.