Stephen Cornford

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 Archipelago   
 

VIDEO 

Archipelago is a sculpture for more than 50 portable CD players. The work inverts their normal role as the source of audio, turning them instead into receptors of sound: ears. In doing so the work asks how these machines might behave were they able to hear. 

Electromagnetic recordings of the machines are played back into their motors, causing them to twitch, tremble and spin unpredictably. These mechanised spasms are then amplified through an array of small speakers encircling them. The abandoned portable stereos of the past, a technology designed to enable solitude and isolation in even the most crowded of spaces, are transformed into a network of nervous electronic eavesdroppers. Visually reminiscent of a model cityscape or biological test laboratory, Archipelago subjects domestic technology to the pressures of urban dwelling.


 

 

 

  

 

 

2023
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Spectral Index

Petrified Media

2022
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Dark Current Collages
Horizon of Fulfillment

2021
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To Photograph A Rock
Pixel Mining

2019
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RGB [Retinally Governed Behaviours]

2018
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Saturation Trails - Acid
- Laser
- X-Ray
Destruction of an Image Sensor

2016
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Constant Linear Velocity
Augenmusik
Methodology for a Synaesthetic Screen

2015
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Migration
Digital Audio Film

2013
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Solipsism Cinema
Archipelago

2012
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Recorded (on) Delivery
Five Introverted Machines

2011
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Binatone Galaxy

2010
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In Search of a Concrete Music

2009
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Works for Turntable

2008
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Three Piece
Air Guitar
Extended Piano

2007
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Trespassing The Olympic Site
For Violin, Viola & Tape