Sculpting Sound

Sculptor Sarah Villeneau and composer Professor Adrian Moore have worked together to sculpt sound and ceramics into a set of small physical works through shared reflection and swapped practice, with each partner learning something about the other’s work by adopting a hands-on craft-based approach.

Through taking a more natural, free flowing methodology based on reactions to the materials at hand they will explore how we shape materials through stretching, tapering, filtering, texturing, and other shared manipulations.

The project concluded with an exhibition of new pieces of ceramic art alongside new works of sonic art embedded within the sculptures. Using portable, battery powered loudspeakers that sends small, quiet sounds through tubes and shell-like shapes. Acting as resonant cavities, the viewer/listener is offered a more fully embodied and engaged experience of the work.