Crompton Building Blocks — A sound installation and performance
Free and open to the public
Variant State’s “Crompton Building Blocks” will explore the nooks and crannies of The White Room, a gallery in Worcester’s Crompton Loom Works, with an assemblage of speakers and other sound making devices distributed throughout the space. This will create an evolving sound environment from distressed field recordings made by Michael Rosenstein and acoustic and electronic drone instruments made by Jesse Kenas Collins. The duo will perform interactively within the installation over the course of the evening. The piece will follow the form of three roughly hour-long segments, but the audience is encouraged to move about the space, come and go as they please and soak up the sounds.
Variant State is a project instigated by Howard Martin (reeds), Jesse Kenas-Collins (trumpet, reeds, feedback objects), and Michael Rosenstein (amplified surfaces and objects, modified field recordings, oscillators.) Working In various configurations, they explore the interactions of acoustic instrumentation, electronics, multiphonics, abraded and degraded recordings, and feedback within collectively improvised settings. Their open-form sonic investigations draw on aesthetics of spontaneous interaction and dynamic cooperative structures.