There exists a universal truth about sound, one that no creature can escape, one that will always accompany us throughout our lives: an archetypal unity elevated above the plain of awareness. Sound penetrates where no other sense will dare, it occupies space and time ubiquitously, its presence illusive yet monumental in its emotive proficiency.Sound is fundamental to both how we experience the world and how the world familiarizes ourselves. Sound exists as language and noise, as harmony and cacophony, even as information and sensation.
I am a 4th Honors student of the Photography & Electronic Media, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen. My work aims at an experience of art that immerses the audience, engaging a diversity of their senses, encouraging them to take a less passive role. I use the platforms of instillation and performance as a means to question the relationships we have with sound, both on a musical level and an artistic one, probing familiar instruments and devices for ways to generate foreign and often challenging noises, finding alternative ways to listen and use these objects. I try to avoid, often even resist, commonplace expectations on how sound can be made and listened too, using my work as a platform to communicate defiant notions in the hope of expanding peoples perception of sound.
Contact Details:
benjmain.b.parkes@googlemail.com
Music by Me:
Jamin Nimjah