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“Bob Levene is an artist who embraces the conclusive, ongoing and unpredictable. Her work resounds with a poetic sensibility that defies categorisation, but with a focus on the nature of perception and sound. Adopting pseudo-scientific strategies and anthropological methods of recording to analyse the ‘nature’ of things, she investigates time, distance and communication. In her efforts with limited resources and limited tools, she uncovers with wit and guile-free sincerity a finely balanced poetics of perception that takes us beyond the ‘truth’ of things into the realm of the absurd”.

Roger McKinley, Corridor8 Magazine, 2009

 

 

 

 

Experiments for Microphones is a series of five short Performances to Camera. Testing Microphone -52s, is a futile attempt to count to ten to test the microphone which is set too high to reach, resulting in the voice waving between being acoustic and amplified. In Spinning Hum -2m55,I recorded my voice making a continuous hum on an old portable tape recorder, which is then played back and spun round, waved side to side and and pushed to and from the microphone layering them to create a composition of doppler patterns. From Walk to Run -2m21, humming whilst walking, I allow the movement and pace of my walk to determine the Idiosyncrasies and pitch of my voiceand finally Metal and Bucket 1m27, where the microphone is placed at the far end of the space away from the camera, I walk from the microphone towards the camera picking up pieces of metal & putting them into a bucket, the nearer I get to the camera the quieter the sound gets.

 

More info: http://www.boblevene.co.uk/