Interactive Installation ‘Cave of Sounds’

10/5-4/6
10:00-19:00
(admissions until 18:30 Sunday through Friday, and until 17:00 on Saturdays)
Tap Seac Gallery (accessible by stairs only)

Creative and Production Team

Creators: Tim Murray-Browne, Dom Aversano, Susanna Garcia, Wallace Hobbes, Daniel Lopez, Tadeo Sendon, Panagiotis Tigas and Kacper Ziemianin
Set Design: Hela Dondertman, Sophie Jacobs and Bridget Murton
Producer: Adriana Minu

Created with support from Music Hackspace, Sound and Music, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Arts Council England. Technical production by Preverbal Studio.

Overview

Cave of Sounds invites audiences to be active explorers within a musical ensemble.

The award-winning project began in 2012 during Tim Murray-Browne’s time as composer in residence at Music Hackspace through Sound and Music’s Embedded programme. Murray-Browne announced an open call to join an experimental collective of musicians. Each would create an instrument encapsulating their individual identities and musical practice.

The eight instruments are arranged in a circle facing inwards. Each can be approached and played by patrons and any number can be played together. They are all designed to be played without guidance, with an equitable experience for participants that treats those with no musical experience the same as it treats those who are musically adept. Through this diversity of methods and individuals, the distinctive ensemble sonorities of the Cave of Sounds emerge.

The Instruments

Sonicsphere
Panagiotis Tigas

A palm-sized sphere with an embedded wireless gyroscope that you can use to warp and charter spaces of heavy digital timbres.

Joker
Wallace Hobbes

A punchy drum kit you play by tapping your fingers on copper bars to close an electric circuit.

The Animal Kingdom
Daniel Lopez

A world of sounds you awaken and shepherd by casting hand shadows in the shape of animals onto a table top, which are read and interpreted by an interior camera.

Generative Net Sampler
Tadeo Sendon

Experimental audio samples, created from digital field recordings of the internet, are triggered as you move through invisible cylindrical trigger zones, detected using a 3D camera.

Lightefface
Kacper Ziemianin

A deep drone you control by shining lamps over a bed of light sensors, each of which modulates the intensity of a different harmonic of a fundamental frequency.

Campanology
Dom Aversano

Generative rhythms derived through the mathematics of church bell ringing patterns, controlled through free movement of your hands using a 3D camera.

Mini-Theremin
Susanna Garcia

Using hand gestures, you control a DIY theremin running through a pitch-tracker, turning it into a controller to mangle noise synthesis.

Wind
Tim Murray-Browne

A breathy flute sound you play by moving your hands around your body through a grid of harmonious notes, sensed using a 3D camera.

Biographical Notes

Tim Murray-Browne

Murray-Browne is an artist and engineer interested in machines that amplify the messy chaos of being human. He has led Cave of Sounds project from conception to completion.

Dom Aversano

Aversano is a handpan player and composer. His music experiments with the rhythmic algorithms of South Indian classical music, exploring it in relation to geometry and western harmony.

Susanna Garcia

Garcia and filmmaker Borja Alexandre create together since 2008. They started their collaboration within the artist’s group Sonom, developing installations, AV performances, music and video works. In 2012 they co-founded Mind the Film, bringing together their passion for filmmaking and the arts.

Wallace Hobbes

Hobbes is an AI Engineer and music enthusiast who designs immediate inclusive experiences exploring human interactions.

Daniel Lopez

Lopez is a programmer from London, UK with a longtime interest in music, games and the interplay between them.

Tadeo Sendon

Sendon’s work attempts to explore the practical crossroad between culture and the contemporary digital based environments. Through research-based projects, his interest is to understand and capture modern technology with sonic and concept art finalisations.

Panagiotis Tigas

Tigas is a computer scientist obsessed with music, arts and the universe.

Kacper Ziemianin

Ziemianin, a.k.a. Ctrl Freq, has background in classical music and a lot of adventures in modern sound and music. He is also a circuit bender, sonologist, improviser, music producer, instrument designer, radio presenter, workshop leader, etc. His projects have won awards and have been presented in many places across the globe.

Disclaimer
The Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government provides liaison and technical support to the project only. Any views/opinions expressed by the project team are those of the project only and do not reflect the views of the Cultural Affairs Bureau.