From Signal to Decay Vol. 6

Trevor Mathison transforms Atelier Nord into an immersive space where the history of the building soaks into the sonic experience. Concerned with themes such as colonialism, ethnicity and diaspora, and with the way the past imprints itself on objects and places, the British artist and musician uses archival fragments to create haunting aural landscapes whose source material is extracted from a building’s internal vibrations and systems, using sound processing and contact mics. 

Hailed as one of most powerful sound installations of recent years, From Signal To Decay consists of kinetic sculptures made from tape loops and a speaker cone hanging from the ceiling; and a video shot in the Scottish landscape. An organic soundscape permeates the rest of the space, channelled into the building from an external microphone. You and your ears become a mobile mixing desk, as the sound balance changes as you move around the space.