Sonic Art & Sound Design- P27:Sonic art is a new art form, or rather, forms. As we shall see, it can encompass a wide range of activities, perhaps wider than almost any other art form. It is an unusual case, based upon a medium that has traditionally been regarded as inferior and subservient to other creative or expressive forms. | REALISATION AND PRESENTATION Iris Garrelfs Iris Garrelfs focuses upon the relationships between people and technologies in both live performances and site-specific installations. Her performances use her own voice subjected to electronic and digital transformations many of which are based upon the system dysfunctions better known as glitch-tech which capitalise upon the shortcomings and even failings of technical systems. This page Dumplinks Dumplinks was created as part of the Sonic Recycler event in London in 2004 and has subsequently appeared at the Arborescence Festival in Marseille and at Circle of Sound in London. It is a sound-based environment created from discarded materials and recordings of sights and sounds captured at recycling facilities in London. Finding beauty where nobody cares to look and listen Iris Garrelfs has created an interactive four-channel sound based environment around recycling issues involving a found downtrodden but very colourful piece of plastic and wires. Tread around and explore the sonic equivalent of a recycling plant and its constituents. Surrounded by Iris Garrelfs multi-channel experience rubbish takes on a new lease of life magically transmuted. Images courtesy of Iris Garrelfs. PERFORMANCE Right Springtide Score for Springtide a surround sound piece for Semiconductor s Brilliant Noise DVD an award-winning solar data archive film which will be released on FatCat Records. Image courtesy of Iris Garrelfs. Right below Spoor Presented in 1994 in Hertogenbosch Holland Spoor was a site and situation-specific six-channel audio photographic trail that explored aspects of urban space and also included a public talk and subsequent performance. Garrelfs describes it thus I began by walking through Den Bosch recording my impressions through photography. Images were then transformed into audio and composed into a six-channel audio installation. During this process I kept an open studio inviting visitors to be part of the work as it .
