Sound Touch

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears. (Pauline Oliveros)

What do you hear when you listen with your body? Imagine a music that bypasses your brain and penetrates your skin. A music that plays upon your nervous system like an Aeolian harp, as though you are a set of sympathetic strings stirred into resonance by distant touch.

Sound Touch explores vibration and the body. Sitting somewhere between a musical performance and a sound installation, join a lone percussionist as they guide your body through a tune-up, a sonic massage and a sound bath that will leave you sensitive and attuned to the world around you.

Sound Touch is a playful and provocative exploration of music's capacity to affect one's character. Traversing labyrinthine references from ancient acoustic myths and conspiracy theories to emerging medical technologies and sonic weapons, this enveloping experience is a sensory lesson in the vibratory nature of existence and the delicate art of listening.

For more information about this work please head to Damien Ricketon's Sound Touch Webpage

Artists

Damien Ricketson - concept/composer
Niki Johnson - percussion
Sally Blackwood - director
Fausto Brusamolino - lighting design
Benjamin Carey - sound design

Sound Touch creative development made possible with the support of the Australia Council for the Arts and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney.