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Looking at Shostakovich Quartet No. 15 opus 144 by Aubrey Williams
Continuing to explore how sound and performance opens up new connections to artworks, Woolford has developed an immersive soundscape in response to Isaac Julien’s exhibition What Freedom Is To Me as well as the abstract paintings of Aubrey Williams.
Through layering, repetition and distortion, Woolford built and transformed sounds over time, forming a rhythmic collage of found video footage, audio samples, experimental electronic sound and spoken word. Inviting the audience to confront and engage with a fragmented world, Woolford injects open questions, personal experiences, references to popular music and thoughts around ongoing global crises.
Dmitry Shostakovich’s Quartet which inspired Aubrey Williams’ painting of the same name opens the performance and is gradually transformed by Woolford into a spectral, haunting soundscape, barely recogniseable to the original.’
Featuring Shostakovich Quartet No. 15 opus 144 by Dmitri Shostakovich and an excerpt from Nina Simone: Freedom
Photography by Anna-Lena Krause & Eugenio Falcioni
Videography by Tanka Tanka