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Stereo Pair (2021), Phil Coy. Permanent concrete sound installation
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Event
Stereo Pair SwitchedOn
28 Sep 2022
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- Brunel University London
- John Crank Garden
- Uxbridge
England - UB83PH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- From Uxbridge tube station U1, U2, U4 and U7: Alight at Brunel University London, Kingston Lane. U3: Alight at Brunel University London, Cleveland Road. 222 and U5: Alight at Cowley Road and use the path through the university accommodation complex.
- West Ruislip tube station (Travelcard Zone 6) is about 4.5 miles from the campus and served by the Central Line. The Central line runs through central London, from Epping, Essex. From the tube station take the U1 bus departing from Stop M in front of the station. The bus takes about 30 minutes.
- Uxbridge tube station (Travelcard Zone 6) is about one mile from Brunel’s campus. You can get to Uxbridge from central London (Baker Street) on the Metropolitan Line or Piccadilly Line in as quick as 40 minutes. When you arrive at Uxbridge, leave the tube station from the exit on your right to get to the bus station. The bus takes 10 minutes; or you can walk to the campus in 20 minutes.
The ‘switch on’ of Stereo Pair: a new permanent outdoor sound installation by the Artist Phil Coy - installed in one of Brunel University London’s loveliest outdoor spaces, the John Crank Gardens.
About
The event celebrates Stereo Pair (2021) – a new permanent, site-sensitive public sound installation at the heart of Brunel’s campus. The two solid-state passive sound amplifiers enhance the ambient sounds of our Green Flag Award-winning space, from listless leaves to clicking insects. When the integrated removable speaker cabinets are added, the conical forms become active amplifiers, transforming the gardens into an egalitarian performance space.
From 2pm, Phil will be joined by the author, journalist and Professor of Modern Thought, Will Self, and Experimental Particle Physicist, Professor Akram Khan. Together they will delve deeper into some of the local influences that shaped the work, including Brunel's original brutalist architecture (as featured in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange), the sonic boom of nearby airports, the HMV Gramophone factory and the invention of stereo sound. Phil will be available for questions throughout the afternoon.
For the 'switch on' of Stereo Pair, Phil has selected a playlist of luminary sound works from musicians and sound artists that draw on the rich mix of resonant histories associated with the location. These include Blumlein’s first ever recording of stereo sound at Hayes & Harlington Station; Ruaidhri Mannion’s new composition Idir chorp agus anamconceived to celebrate the unique spatial and sonic properties of the work; and recorded work from Duane Eddy’s, Movin’ N’ Groovin’(recorded in a water tank to achieve reverberation) alongside contemporary pieces such as Mary Hurrell’s StereoSkin (2017).
