BONNER ROAD

Bonner Road is a soundscape installation and a spatial music performance exploring the translation of acoustic environment from one location to the other. 
Initially, when my collaborator, architectural designer Freddie Hong and I planned to create this performance at the Sinchon Theatre, we did not expect to happen a pandemic.
By end of May, we decided to postpone our original show to next year and planned a new sound installation to deliver our message physically as much as possible from UK to Korea. 
 
Inspired by the restricted physical contact because of a pandemic, Bonner Road was seeking for transfer the most physical movement to Korea through telepresence. We found that the only physical energy we are able to deliver via network is sound, which is created by the vibration of the particle. 
 
Spatial music is the method of composition that focus on the direction and physicality of sound. This is also a method that was actively used by the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Co-developed with an architectural designer Freddie Hong, we decided that this technique seemed the most appropriate merge between architecture and sound. 
I used spatial music technique to create a soundscape that is a record of how we live in this time captured and portrayed through sound.  
In the Sinchon theatre we setup a multi-projection sound environment with 6 independently controlled loudspeakers which are corresponding the location of recorded sound at Bonner Road studio. Through this sound installation, the audiences could visualise our presence by the location of the sounds in space. 
At the end of the show, Bonner Road and the Sinchon theatre connected via Video Call, so audiences at the Sinchon Theatre were able to see interior of the Bonner Road studio.