To hear on Sunday 5 and 12 June 2016, from 2pm to 9pm:
Scorched Earth
(ohrenhoch remix 2016, Premiere)
by Lauren Sarah Hayes (Scotland / USA)
Scorched Earth‘ is presented in the Audio Booth (fixed loudspeaker installation designed by Knut Remond, based on an idea by Jacob, ohrenhoch-Kids)
Lauren Sarah Hayes on 'Scorched Earth':
Scorched Earth (ohrenhoch remix 2016, premier) is part of Sounding Out Spaces, an ongoing series of collaborations between Lauren Sarah Hayes (site-responsive performance) and Tobias Feltus (analogue [+ digital] photography). This piece documents a performance at the once booming sea-side resort, now abandoned Bombay Beach, The Salton Sea, California. The Salton Sea is a man-made environmental disaster. The decaying sea is host to large-scale bird and fish die-offs. Its shores are covered with salt-encrusted skeletons. Expecting to work with portable live electronics, we were pleasantly surprised to find an abandoned piano frame on the beach. This is the only instrument that featured in the original performance. Along with the sound of birds, planes and distant freight trains. In this remix, I weave in my current response to the original performance, adding piano and live electronics. I transform the original material to reflect the ongoing transformations and degradations of the sea, which remains, in my memory, post-apocalyptic...
SPECIAL: Text by Lauren Sarah Hayes to 'Soundactivism' is available at ohrenhoch!
Lauren Sarah Hayes is a musician and sound artist from Scotland who builds hybrid analogue/digital instruments. Her music lies somewhere between free improv, experimental pop, techno, and noise. She also composes haptic music that can be experienced as vibration throughout the body and enjoys performing in unusual locations. She is a regular improviser, enjoying a wide range of collaborators, and for over a decade has given multisensory workshops for various groups, including those with sensory impairment, learning difficulties, and autism. She is an associate of the New Radiophonic Workshop and Assistant Professor of Sound Studies within the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University.