the idea was to arrive a few days early for the festival and gather sound material using contact pickups on my feet, edit the sounds into an installation, then do a performance during the festival...the creaky stairs leading up to the installation/performance space were an interesting feature of the sonic landscape..... after trying contact pickups i found that soundman in ear mics taped to my feet sounded creakier....... and there was a breaker box in the space that had a beautiful hum......the edited sounds were burned to three cds along with silent tracks...the cd players in random mode fed three speakers
for the performance i recorded the staircase climb and transferred the sounds to powerbook while the audience chatted.....loops of audience conversation and climbing feet were transformed as mixer feedback slowly built
video documentation by laura kavanaugh
