Multimedia installation by Russell Mills and Ian Walton
Urbis, Manchester, for Futiresonic04

Recycled Manchester red bricks, 7 silvered aluminium bowls, 7 ceiling motors, copper wires, horse and sheep bones, ashes, earth, sand, dyed water, polluted water, industrial swarf,
7 Cumbrian Dobby stones, oil, petrol, turpentine spirits, lighting, 3 c-ducer microphones, 2 pre-set Korg Kaoss pads, CD player, mixing desk, delay unit, 4 pairs of speakers

Soundwork mixed and produced by Russell Mills and Mike Fearon at Shed Studio, Ambleside, Cumbria

Seven ceaselessly turning stones shape seven metal bowls, which in their turn effect new sculptings of the stones. Each round producing small, indeterminate, hesitant scrapings, the sounds of the uneasy symbiosis between the environment and humankind: a reciprocal process of continual transition between flux and fixity, between the ethereal and the enduring. Aleotoric and predictive processes of sound intervention explore and allude to weaved notions of our multiple senses of place and time and of consciousness. The future merges present and past at the moment of passing, of revolution; as we anticipate possible futures, the past swells and the future diminishes.

*From the River Medlock, which runs under Oxford Road, near Oxford Road railway station: the area was known as “Little Ireland” and was described by Freidrich Engels as “the worst slums in the township.”