David Tudor’s Rainforest IV

(2009)
Collaborative sound installation / durational performance

Visitor – biker

PA 1

PA 2

Metal pipe

“Rainforest” instruments inside metal pipe

Manually resonating oil barrel and metal pipe

Transducer on filing cabinet door

Live stream

Blue tom with transducer

Projecting from a microwave onto a fridge

Resonating grill

Wireless

Reverse reel projection

International artists

Grand piano frame

Trolley and meter

Mobile sheet metal

Health and safety

1st floor projection

Visitors – art students

My set up

Entrance

Visitors enjoying the resonance of the oil barrel

Visitors contributing to the resonance

Washing line

Tudor’s seminal work from the 1970s is a template for what is now called sound art today. It involves resonating sound sculptures, audience interactivity, collaboration, use of found objects and feedback loops and networks.(

The group installation/performance took place in Area 10 Project Space in Peckham. It was a former Whitten’s warehouse which was used as an event space for several years before being closed for demolition and subsequent redevelopment.

All the material used for the sound sculptures were found within the vicinity of Area 10 which included remains from the timber warehouse, discarded objects from building and development sites and general junk. The event took place within the backdrop of the changing landscape of Peckham and the tide of gentrification that was to follow.