Installation no. 2 for high and low frequencies.
The corner of Lower Clapton Road and Urswick Road. It's 12:30pm and the sun is beaming the outside world inside. The visual contrast between the whitewash walls of the Angus Hughes interior and the streams of red buses and trailing cars at the traffic lights outside is striking; but add sound into the equation and the lines begin to blur.
By gathering and manipulating the external sound, John Wynne has crafted a recording which works with the internal space; it is so finely tuned to the specifics of this room that the sound system is able to create feedback from the walls and windows. There is a feeling of full integration and after a few minutes you begin to totally lose a feeling of the barrier between intended and incidental sound.
The really compelling thing about this installation is the way it is innately tied to the room. The experience is diminished by losing the visual connection with the space. Something has been woven into the architecture of the building, the tremors from the windows and door give the feeling of a pulse and the outside floods the inside with an intensity that is totally lost without the sound.
The installation is free and runs from 6th - 29th April 2012 at the Angus Hughes Gallery, Hackney.
John Wynne
Angus Hughs Gallery
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