UNHEARD FROM
Commissioned by The Liverpool Irish Festival
Premiere October 21st 2022
Unheard from is an immersive sound installation piece for harp, vocals and live processing. The piece was created in response to Martin McCoy's exhibition of etchings Sweeny's Unquiet Islands.
It explores through sound the representation of landscape within the prints. unheard from responds to the textures, layers and movement found within the etchings and monotypes. Manon uses them as a lens through which to access the acoustic environments of these landscapes. The performance is built from drone-based textures; ambient found sounds; harp and vocal effects conjuring a sound world in which these images exist.
The installation involves spatialisation of sounds, interacting directly with the acoustics of the gallery space. The audience are invited to move through and explore the space of the piece. They choose where they are drawn to stand and by extension how they want to perceive the space.
