Sound is a portal. It can shape how we perceive our environment, call our attention or create cognitive dissonance. Anne Hardy and Aura Satz are particularly attuned to the workings of sound or noise, as they use this as part of their art practice.
Aura Satz is interested in sonic notation and electronic soundscapes from feminist and historical perspectives. Her work seeks to break open how we listen, what we listen to, what affect it produces. As she notes “the world is getting louder, everything beeps, at this point also vibrates. The world is really in this state of constant alarm and alert". Even during the relative silence that her hometown of London descended into during the weeks of lockdown, the sirens kept going. Her siren project is about recalibrating and returning how we hear those noises (from 15:33).
Anne Hardy is particularly interested in the relationship between space and sound, and how sound creates spaces in the same way that light creates form. Using both sound, environment and photography in her work, understanding sound in these terms draws aninteresting relationship between sound and photography (from 27:40).
Both artists participated in DRAF’s Resonant Frequencies Programme, which was an investigation into sound and hearing in all its forms through peer-to-peer workshop sessions.
This episode also contains extracts of sound pieces by Anne Hardy and Aura Satz:
You can listen to Anne Hardy,The Depth of Darkness, the Return of the Light (2019), originally made for the Winter Commission at Tate Britain and Aura Satz, Dail Tone Drone (2014) which uses the electronic dial tone of telephones as a starting point for a discussion with electronic music pioneers Pauline Oliveros and Laurie Spiegel about drones and their use in music.
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Anne Hardy’s practice spans photography, sculptural installation and audio. She is internationally recognised for her large-scale sculptural installations: immersive, sensual works that combine physical materials with lighting and surround sound.
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Aura Satz’s work centres on the trope of ventriloquism in order to conceptualise a distributed, expanded and shared notion of voice. Works are made in conversation and use dialogue as both method and subject matter. She has completed several works on women in electronic music such as Daphne Oram, Laurie Spiegel, and Pauline Oliveros. Satz is interested in notation systems, and methods of writing sound or musical transmission.
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Want to hear more from artists about their research? In Episode 4 artist Shezad Dawood talks with ecological geneticist Prof Madeleine van Oppen as part of his ongoing research into the connections between ocean conservation, migration and mental health.
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