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Rather than occurring before the audience arrives, a (kind of) soundcheck is performed live for the audience to listen in.

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This soundcheck, however, departs from the conventional goal of optimizing listening conditions before a live performance and instead involves complicating its acoustic relations.

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The ASMR Harness is used to amplify contact between its user and the surfaces of a built environment to research instances of collective architectural intimacy.

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Rather than understanding amplified anomalies as intrusions to the live performance, the piece considers feedback, delay, and distortions
as collaborative entities which inform bodily movements.

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The piece posits the performance venue itself to be a subject with a rich capacity for movement and seeks to amplify it.

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Soundcheck in Studio 1 brings together architectural, acoustic and body-based research in an attempt to restructure the relations between inhabitation, listening and movement.

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