LAST ONE STANDING This amazing spectacle of a snowball fight tournament in the centre of Johannesburg was a pleasure to be a part of. The teams were made up of everyone from taxi drivers to soap opera stars to politicians. Andy Sherman and myself provided a soundscape for the event as well as a war cry for each team which was sung by the Universal Gospel Choir.
SOUND LINES For this project I overlayed Marcus's drawing of the Joburg skyline onto a software sequencer where the horizontal lines represent the length of each note over time and the height along the vertical axis represents the pitch. I added another layer of percussion where each note represents a different percussion instrument. The result is a completely automated piece of music played by the lines of Joburg's silhouette.
Listen to the track here.
More about this project by Marcus Neustetter here.
VILLAGE WALK PUBLIC PERFORMANCE
I was asked to do a performance on a square in one of Johannesburgs main business districts. The goal was to bring arts to an area not generally associated with much more than business. I set up three microphones and looped and manipulated the sounds of people walking by and the ocasional brave one who spoke into the microphone. My goal was to create an alternate soundscape of that space.
MEMENTO
This event was held at the Momo Gallery in Johannesburg on youth day in 2006. Johan Thom, Nathaniel Stern, Dinkies Sithole, Shane de Lange and myself performed simultaneously in different rooms of the gallery. I took the sound from each of the other artists and again looped and manipulated it, forming a narrative representative of my experience of adjusting to this new culture and trying to make sense of it through piecing together quite opposing fragments and ideas.
