Routine, 2022
Ben Cullen Williams and Gaika
Aluminium, contact microphones, reverb plates, generative sequencer, soundcard, computer, screens
What are cities without people? How are people influenced by their environment, and vice versa? How can we make a humane system within cities in which we can exist sustainably?
Humanity and the urban environment are innately interconnected, but there is conflict within that shared dependency: what is essential for the community can be dystopian to the individual. Routine places the viewer in a generative space that continually evolves as it explores these ideas. A multi-channel film - captured via drone and 8mm isolation of cluttered and uncompromising cityscapes is scored live by a custom built sound instrument interacts with the viewer as they move through the installation, activating a feedback loop that continuously adapts to people, feeding sounds generated in the space back into the environment, creating a score in real-time.
Williams and GAIKA bring the viewer inside the music in three-dimensions through spatial audio.
