Maelstrom

(as Jones/Bulley, with Daniel Jones)

96 speakers, amplification, analysis and synthesis software, score

5x5x4m

Science Gallery, Melbourne, AU
(August–December 2022)

South Kiosk Gallery, London, UK
(February–March 2022)

Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK
(16 May–10 June 2012)

Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
(24 November 2011)

Every minute, hundreds of hours of audio are uploaded to the internet from around the world, a figure that is increasing exponentially.Maelstrom harnesses this global sonic ecosystem to create a spatial sound sculpture that is composed in real-time from tens of thousands of sound fragments, heard through a spiral architecture of 96 speakers.

Through shifting, pointillistic landscapes of sound, streams of human and more-than-human language drift amongst clustered chords, woven from the performances of hundreds of unknown musicians across the world.

With thanks to: Ed Borgnis (Production Manager), Simon Hendry (Systems Design), Max Hunter (Amplification Design), Jo Kaspar (Artist assistant to Jones/Bulley), Jake Tyler (Artist assistant to Jones/Bulley), Dave Charlesworth (South Kiosk), Tom Richards.