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GALLERY 2
A Conch Choir
This collaborative work turns the gallery space into an installation made up of objects and a listening chamber to immerse yourself within.
The artistic investigation starts from thinking about the musical, and culturally reverberant sound of the conch. The artists explore amplification and the echoic through an intricate, intuitive and inhabitable sound work or as they candidly refer to it as, a conch choir.
Lucreccia’s interest in the conch comes from having grown up in Central America and developing an interest from childhood in the continuity of the conch as an instrument and its sounds, which range in use from the musical to a call to gather within her cultural context, as well as many others around the world.
Nina brings her interest in histories of sound technologies and methods of improvisation with the other-than-human. This work comes from a shared interest in storytelling through sound, melody and experimentation.
PUBLIC PROGRAM
Saturday 7 March, 2pm
Performance activation as part of BMF’s Neighbourhood Noise.
Join artists of Through Our Eyes and A conch choir exhibitions, as they activate Blak Dot and Balam Balam spaces with live performances, improvisation and music.
Composer Nina Buchanan and artist Lucreccia Quintanilla work on an improvised version of their sound installation "a conch choir". Working with samples in a hybrid live performance, they invite local community members with an interest in playing the conch to bring their own and join in as they create a 30 minute soundscape from 2pm.
ABOUT THE COLLABORATION
Lucreccia Quintanilla and Nina Buchanan first collaborated in 2021, where they brought together Buchanan’s interest in melodic improvisations and Quintanilla’s approach to sampling and sonic collage to create complex and intricate compositions that tell stories and create spaces to inhabit through sounds. These ideas are fed through a shared interest in science fiction and the creation of new worlds.