How has the Vitruvian concept influenced my work?
In 1996/97 I became interested in the concept of creating an acoustical space that could evolve (that was not static and dependent upon physical constraints). The first ‘showing’ of this took place at The Royal Festival Hall in February 1998 as an installation in collaboration with Jason Cornish. The sound consisted of quadraphonic pre-recorded CD’s and live signal processing of environmental sounds picked up by directional microphones around the site. The result being an acoustic that felt as if it changed without any physical visual change. Around this time, I was invited to compose a sound track for a CD Rom for Illuminations Interactive (The British Museum, Channel 4 Learning). The project was based upon journeys through Roman Britain and the Roman Empire. The sound track uses similar ideas to the above in that it makes use of exaggerated spatial effects to create changes of feel and atmosphere. My research into the Romans project and also long term continuing work with Jason Corni
