This was a sound installation I did at an Invisible Cities event, consisting of five tape loops of trumpet sounds. A combination of tape players, some manipulated or dismembered, hung on the wall below a video of a trumpet being crushed. The result was a "living composition", trumpet tones constantly shifting and interacting in new ways, each with a different tonal quality dependent on the speaker and amplification method.

• JOÃO ORECCHIA AND JOSEPH SUCHY AT DAVID KRUT GALLERY, JOHANNESBURG

Intermittent was a site-specific installation with intermittent performances by João Orecchia and Joseph Suchy. From Monday 18 July, 2011 to Saturday 23 July, 2011 João Orecchia and Joseph Suchy experimented with spatial relationships of sound at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg. By exploring potential combinations of sound making objects from musical instruments to self-built circuits and methods of sound manipulation, the two worked to find the point where an auditory environment and a physical landscape and a new form of dynamic, living musical composition cease to be separate constructs and form a holistic experience to mirror the artists' views on sound.

Each day Orecchia and Suchy adjusted and rearranged objects and speakers in the space, searching for sonic relationships. They performed twice a day for one hour at a time. At the end of each performance they had created a sonic and visual landscape that stood until the next performance.

Design label Guillotine presents Monotype, an innovative performance piece consisting of fashion, design, sound, movement and print making. This semi-performance/installation is a theatrical piece that draws from the input of a whole team of creatives to produce a garment using elements of printing and design to alter the shape and structure of fabric within the spectatorship of an audience. Music by Joao Orecchia, Filmed and edited by Chiara Frisone.

A stop frame animation by Colleen Alborough for her exhibition also titled Balance. The sound is made entirely from material sourced using home-made microphones that record the inner workings of machines such as computer cpu's, my car's gear box, coffee machine, and the electromagnetic hum and static of fluorescent lights.

A video piece by Colleen Alborough and João Orecchia produced for CITY BREATH.
CITY BREATH is an urban oral history video project.

Apart from existing works, it initiates and develops new collaborations in the areas of the video poem, screen dance and experimental film. These short video 'breaths' or 'gasps' seek to interrogate the official understandings of South African cities given to us in television, film and other mass media.

More about CITY BREATH here

The video was originally produced as a finalist entry into the Sasol Wax Art Awards.

More about the project here

This amazing spectacle of a snowball fight tournament in the centre of Johannesburg was a pleasure to be a part of. The teams were made up of everyone from taxi drivers to soap opera stars to politicians. Andy Sherman and myself provided a soundscape for the event as well as a war cry for each team which was sung by the Universal Gospel Choir.

For this project I overlayed Marcus's drawing of the Joburg skyline onto a software sequencer where the horizontal lines represent the length of each note over time and the height along the vertical axis represents the pitch. I added another layer of percussion where each note represents a different percussion instrument. The result is a completely automated piece of music played by the lines of Joburg's silhouette.


More about this project by Marcus Neustetter here.

•VILLAGE WALK PUBLIC PERFORMANCE

I was asked to do a performance on a square in one of Johannesburgs main business districts. The goal was to bring arts to an area not generally associated with much more than business. I set up three microphones and looped and manipulated the sounds of people walking by and the ocasional brave one who spoke into the microphone. My goal was to create an alternate soundscape of that space.

This event was held at the Momo Gallery in Johannesburg on youth day in 2006. Johan Thom, Nathaniel Stern, Dinkies Sithole, Shane de Lange and myself performed simultaneously in different rooms of the gallery. I took the sound from each of the other artists and again looped and manipulated it, forming a narrative representative of my experience of adjusting to this new culture and trying to make sense of it through piecing together quite opposing fragments and ideas.

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