In collaboration with improvising quartet Volume (IV), and artist Steven
Milton, Analogue Studio designed an installation for one night of
Expansion/Contraption -- a four-evening performance/installation at
Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, NY. Volume (IV) features an electroacoustic
harpist, turntablist, laptop artist and electroacoustic flutist. Together they create
an inimitable sonic entity, luminous and enigmatic, without obvious
exit or entrance points. Through the constant recording and resurfacing
of their performances, the members of Volume (IV) negotiate a
collective present with around the obstacles and opportunities of the
fragmented past. In response to Volume's artistic approach, Analogue
Studio and Steven Milton distributed the four players and varying
acoustically tuned listening environments within a labyrinth, creating
physical chance encounters that reflect the sonic chance encounters of
Volume's performance.