Peripheries (2024): Was a site-specific, multichannel sound installation at Marshgate, UCL East, the work invited listeners to deepen their presence in the everyday environment through enlivening perceptions and enhancing awareness.

Featuring a minimalist polyphonic choral composition drawing influence from venetian choral music, cori spezzati, (broken choruses) voices called across the vast atrium space, with solo voices serving as coordinates to define the reverberant open space.

Interwoven within the composition were field recordings taken from the building itself. Lysergic and eerie, these processed recordings played with psychoacoustic perception and liminal listening perspectives, enlivening listeners to the sound and space around them.

A unique array of 16 speakers arranged across 6 floors of the building, transformed the architectural space into a resonating body, encouraging an embodied exploration of the space to create a dynamic composition and evolving listening experience from multiple perspectives.

Peripheries was originally created for 16 speakers installed at Marshgate UCL East. The 16-channels have been mixed as 3rd-order ambisonics and subsequently decoded to binaural for this edit.

Composition, Sound Design and Mix - Amanda Butterworth. Photography - James Tye. Video - Amanda Butterworth