Inhabiting resonant bodies

An event by the Studies in Arts, Migration and Aurality Research Network. Emma-Kate Matthews (Associate Professor, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL) Session lead Audrey Wozniak About this event Inhabiting Resonant Bodies is a new spatial performance by Emma-Kate Matthews that explores resonance as an architectural material. Developed through the ongoing Resonant Bodies research project, the work spatialises recordings of bespoke cast bronze and laser-sintered instruments to create a rich sonic environment that is felt as much as it is heard. Resonant partials move through space, overlap and interfere, producing shifting beating patterns, low-frequency vibrations and spatiosonic illusions. As listeners inhabit the sonic field, these relationships continually reconfigure, inviting resona