THIS EXCITED SURFACE - Jane Grant

This Excited Surface is a site specific sonic artwork for camera obscuras. The work is sound-based, with a spoken narrative that interweaves solar physics, cosmologies and desire interwoven with sonification of sun’s activity. The spoken narrative is a story of the cyclical interaction of the sun with the outer layer of our atmosphere, the ionosphere; of darkened spaces that channel light, and about desire, longing and the temporality of connection. 

As participants walked into the darkened space of the camera obscura they encountered a glowing yellow dish, a sun in the earth. There was a deep bass sound coming from an under floor speaker and four speakers which played a spoken narrative interweaved with crackling, fizzing sounds of the excited ionosphere.