A sound, light and sculptural installation presented in the Slade School of Art Graduate Degree Show, June 2019.

DMX (a digital communication network for stage lights) is the beating heart of Bird Brain. I use it to control my light fixtures and the speed and direction of four repurposed turntables. These modulated turntables compose live-mixed sound and choreograph four kinetic sculptures in a thirty-minute sequence.

The installation was initially conceived as a reconfiguration of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s Light Space Modulator. Using the languages of cinema, stage and poetry (with a special nod to Emily Dickinson, and her many bird and brain poems), Bird Brain examines the metaphors we use when we talk about the mind, nature and extinction.