On my recent trip to Gothenburg I visited the Röda Sten gallery, an excellent alternative space which was an old boiler house in the industrial area of the city. The exhibitions on came under the theme ‘ Reverberations’, an exploration of sound and how sound could be manipulated, could be visual/an object, could evoke memory and ultimately affected the space. The exhibition comprised of Janet Cardiff, Mikael Ericsson, Jonas Gazell, Babette Mangolte, José Luis Martinat, Ursula Nistrup, Kirstine Roepstorff and Vinyl, Terror- & Horror.

The piece that particularly caught my attention was Vinyl, Terror- & Horror by Camilla Sørensen and Greta Christensen, this piece took the form of a performance made up of electronics and sound. The performance used devices that produced sound including speakers, turntables and microphones, deconstructed and reconstructed in a process that altered the sounds they were able to produce and play. These devices we’re then animated to give them a creepy anthropomorphic quality, extended by the use of diffused spotlighting to focus you in on the horror in the sounds they were creating. It was a very effective piece in which I saw connections to a previous project I was a part of in the creation of a device of evolutionary sounds, the performative aspect here gave inspiration for how this piece could be explored further to inject a sense of vitality/life.