Body sound performer: Ashling McCannon
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Body sound performer: Ashling McCannon

Ashling McCannon

Move a body. Play a room.

Listen Closer / Ashling McCannon

Ashling / Movement & sound

The sonic room

SOUNDS DISCOVERED0 / 7
01 / Listen to the floor

Walk across all three surfaces: wood, stone and metal.

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CONTACT MICS — LIVEWOOD FLOOR
Move across a surface or play an object.
Your eight-second composition

Capture your footsteps, gestures and objects as one phrase.

Take your first step.

Click or drag across the floor, or use arrow keys / WASD. Pick an object, then dance or press Play object. Space toggles dancing; G plays the held object. This interactive uses recreated sounds and records only its own performance events, never your microphone.

Ashling / The Sonic Room

The sonic
room

Move the dancer across three surfaces and play the objects in the room. Adjust the amplifier, then record a short performance.

  1. Move the dancer over wood, stone and metal.
  2. Try four gestures and play all four objects.
  3. Capture eight seconds with three different sound sources, then play your loop.

Mouse, touch or keyboard · no time limit · sound starts when you enter
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Ashling McCannon is a movement and sound artist and an MA Sound Arts practitioner at LCC, UAL. Her work brings dance, whole-body movement, improvisation and experimental sound into the same space, using the body and everyday objects to create a wide range of sounds. A shift in posture, a movement across the floor or contact with an object can become part of the performance. For Listen Closer, McCannon contributes a short performance film exploring how sound is created through the body and movement.