Everything Exists As Frequency- Fringe Arts Bath by Tanya Elizabeth Harris

At the Resonance show for Fringe Arts Bath 2014 Tanya facilitated a live interactive experience of resonance.Nothing is really solid; the molecules within matter are constantly vibrating. We think that we are flesh and bone, when we are actually a combination of electromagnetic signals. Everybody is emitting their own frequency and absorbing frequencies around them.

Resonance describes how frequencies communicate and harmonise with each other. The resonant frequencies of a space sonically describe the accumulation of frequencies present in it; the walls, the furniture, the materials that make up the space, aswell as each person who enters the space.
Inspired by a technique discovered by Alvin Lucier, the exhibition space was recorded. This recording was played back into the space while re-recording it, the process was repeated over and over again, building up a feedback loop.

Initially, footsteps became audible, and fragments of conversation re-entered the space. As these recordings proceeded, sound becomes distorted; a distinctive cough re-emerges as an eerie echo. Eventually these recordings amplify certain frequencies of the space, articulated by speech and movement; words become unintelligible, replaced by the pure resonant frequencies of the space. At this stage, the room will begin to reverberate creating a physical experience of resonance.The space was continually recorded in this way. The resonant frequency of the space varied greatly each time depending on how many people were in the space, and what kinds of sounds they were making. It was very interesting for me to listen back to how people engaged with these live recordings, especially when they were alone in the space, and therefore this piece took on a life of its own.