The work is a 40 minute sound performance/installation, corresponding to the default 40 minute zoom conference time frame. Testing the limitations of a popular communication tool in this Covid19 era, five devices and three speakers over two rooms in separate continents are tuned into one meeting. The work functions as an act of inhabiting space both physically and virtually, an attempt in fitting two unique rooms into one another.
As sounds dart between each device, a feedback circle between Sydney and Berlin is created, simultaneously disintegrating through physical distances in the rooms as the speakers communicate to the inbuilt microphones on the phones and laptops.
The use of auxiliary chords over graphite further interrupts and distorts the feedback. As a semiconductor, graphite is used as a mediator between the output of a speaker and the input of a mobile phone mic, giving the act of drawing a role in determining the form of sound. The surfaces on which the graphite is drawn, as well as distance, shape, and thickness of application also affect the results. A vertically suspended piece of metal is also used as a speaker in the performance, attached to it is an audio exciter. All sounds in the performance were generated organically: Whistles, claps, speaking, drawing, and banging objects for example.