Many Dances’- a multi-channel sound installation for the boardwalk opposite the amphitheatre on Wollundry Lagoon. The installation consists of a computer controlled system that generates a continually changing immersive soundscape, sensors that turn on the system when people are present and an array of 7 small speakers that will be placed under the floor of the boardwalk.
The soundscape will be generated from a collection of short recordings of dance gestures made on the boardwalk (foot falls, shuffles and scrapes etc with shoes, boots and bare feet). In presenting the sonic detail of dance gestures, audiences are drawn into the specifics of their own embodied experience of dance while at the same time provoked to consider this experience in the context of Wagga Wagga as ‘the place of many dances’.