A prospective archaeology

Mosley, Jonathan; Warren, Sophie

Abstract

Professor of New Media (University of Bergen) and artist Brandon LaBelle invited us to participate in a project he was developing for a touring exhibition and book. He writes: ‘The project is developed as a conversation between sound and architecture. Working with architects, designers and artists from around the world, I sent them three audio recordings of my apartment in Berlin. Attempting to sound out the space, the recordings document the ambient, material and dimensional aspects of the apartment. The participants were then given the task of making a physical model of the apartment by using the sounds as their only source of information. In this way, a process of translation and interpretation developed, incorporating an understanding, however factual or fantastical, of the auditory into rendering a spatial form.’ Our response to Brandon’s sound recordings was to create a construction and accompanying text for the book that explores the notion of a contingent architecture being built through sound.

The book documents the artefact we produced that was a creative response to a sound recording of a series of rooms, which was then exhibited in the following:

Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley (2011) ‘Room Tone’ group exhibition curated by Brandon LaBelle, General Public, Berlin.
Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley (2009) ‘Room Tone’ group exhibition curated by Brandon LaBelle, Cut n Splice Festival, London.
Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley (2008) ‘Room Tone’ group exhibition curated by Brandon LaBelle, Tuned City Festival, Berlin.

This link shows the images of the work, the exhibitions and lists the other architects involved http://www.brandonlabelle.net/room_tone.html

Citation

Mosley, J., & Warren, S. (2015). A prospective archaeology. In B. LaBelle (Ed.), Room ToneErrant Bodies Press

• Publication Date: Feb 1, 2015
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: Room Tone
• ISBN: 9780982743959
• Keywords: sound, architecture, art
• Publisher URL: http://www.errantbodies.org/room_tone.html
• Related Public URLs: http://www.errantbodies.org/ebpublications.html