Combing Dust is collaborative project with Padraig Greene (@thisfindsyou), developed during a residency at Cloud 9 Festival. It is a project about attention: to place, to sound, and to the residue that time leaves behind.
Our work on Combing Dust began with a late-July weekend spent filming the property and its surroundings, gathering footage as a kind of survey of the site. Over those same days, Paddy was shaping the project’s sound, composing instrumentals that peered out from the welcome centre into No.9 Gardens and softened the boundary between building and landscape. Image and sound were being made in the same place, at the same time, in response to the same ground.
That footage became the material for our opening performance, in which Paddy performed live music, and in which I alpha-blended the recordings live, in sync with a webcam feed, layering the recordings over real time.
The following night, we revealed our 12-minute audio-visual piece, composed of the same visual and musical recordings we had captured during the residency weekend. At the installation site, Paddy also burned our materials onto CDs, so that the final gesture was a physical, handmade one, shared between us and everyone attending Cloud 9.
I am deeply grateful to Paddy for his collaboration and the immeasurable effort brought to this work.
click here to view Combing Dust’s 12-minute audio-visual composition.
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