New member - Jony Easterby.
I guess multi-media artist is as good a definition as any. My work ranges far into the physical plastic world of materials, information, digital media, performance, ritual, ecology and landscape.
I have been living in the Snowdonia National Park for the past twelve months, building a small studio whilst keeping up my work with several ongoing projects.
My work at present is based around the investigation of sound object relationships within sculpture and the application of sound within interactive installations in site specific situations.
I am currently building a small sound work for installation in the Grizedale forest Cumbria involving the use solar powered amplified sample/playback units placed inside hollowed out boulders, these are to be sited along the course of a small beck in the park. The sounds will be triggered by walkers and their timing modulated by light sensors. The work aims to raise questions relating to the perception of nature and technology as well as the diffusion and distribution of sound in outdoor spaces. I am currently experimenting with different dynamics and configurations as well as the logic and interactive nature of such a system.
Other work under development includes;
1. A system to interact with real-time data collected by the Northern Lights Observatory in Tromso Norway for the N. Lights Festival 2000 in collaboration with Biosphere. This will be transmitted to an installation in the town centre to be modulated by the audience throwing snowballs at a series of *Jacobıs ladder* like structures framing geometric triggers of differing sizes.
2. The construction of a permanently sited public artwork for the Irwell Valley Sculpture Trail investigating the dynamic processes derived from a nearby Water Treatment Plant to create and modulate sounds/composition integrated into sculptural forms.
Ongoing work creating sound scores and improvisations with Red Earth and Birmingham Sound Artists.
************************************ Jony Easterby 1999 ***************************************.
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