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Wet Sounds at Ironmongers Row Baths

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Time 19:00
Date 26/02/17
Price £15
  • Produced by Wet Sounds
  • Price £15.00 per session or buy 5 tickets for the price of 4.
  • Get ready for an unmissable underwater sound performance
  • Bring along your swimwear and goggles!
  • Surf to Tickets
  • See you at Ironmongers Row Baths

Wet Sounds transforms swimming pools into art spaces, immersing the public in a deep-listening experience while floating or diving in the water.

Sound travels four times faster in water than it does in the air, and is perceived by the entire body and the inner ear. Underwater the sound is very clear, detailed, and gives an unusual feeling of womb-like privacy within a public space.

The music is an eight channel composition divided above and below the water surface. The water surface acts as a threshold between two worlds, the public and the private, the real and the imaginary, accessed for the duration of a breath of air.

Part performance part installation, the lack of directionality of focus as to where the sound is coming from, makes Wet Sounds an immersive and interactive experience.

Audiences in the water will discover a dance performance beneath them, Louis Clement Da Costa will be exploring the gravity free watery space and pool walls with movement, bringing a strange theatrical element to the experience.

Joel Cahen plays plays a live abstract electronic eight-channel composition. There are six channels above the water and two channels below the water surface. The audience member determines the mix by weaving in and out of the water between the different sounds. No two experiences are alike. The music draws on electroacoustic and collage traditions to create a charged and dynamic composition that activates the leisure centre space to the realms of fantasy and abstraction.

SDNA craft a unique visual ambience using carefully selected lighting and video projections that compliment the architecture of the leisure centre space and transform it into a dynamic art space.

Louis Clement da Costa is dancer and choreographer based in Brussels. He has worked with the Opera Ballet of Lyon, Les Ballets C. de la B. , Gilles Jobin Cie or peeping tomand Charleroi Danse . With Speedbattles collective, he creates the Play Theatre Factory in Geneva, the Speedbattles (dance games) and zine devoted to dance "The Dancing Plague" . In 2015 he joined the team of Requin-Baleine and decided to explore the choreographic and visualresearch underwater. ……………………………………………………………………………………….

COMPETITION: Win 1x pair of tickets to attend Wet Sounds at Ironmongers Row Baths, Session 2, on 26th February at 20:00. To enter the competition, send an email to ava@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ line. The winner will be randomly selected.

Q: How much faster does sound travel in water than in air?

A: .1) No faster- it’s the same speed .2) 100 times as fast .3) 50 times slower .4) 4 times faster

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