Deering Drone for Estate étude

AUDIO EXTRACT from a multi-media piece Deering Estate Artist in Residence Barron Sherer created an audio-visual work in 2021 commissioned for Subtropics Festival. The piece explored the projected films' experience, the apparatuses involved, and live sound creation. It was a site-specific work; all 16mm motion-picture photography was filmed at Deering Estate, also the site of the projector performance. Much of the sound was created by painting on the blank soundtrack area during the premiere screening while the film whirred through a projector.

Pre-recorded elements: Four channels of synth drone (digital) and drone on audio cassette passed through the projector's mic input. The pre-recorded bits were improvised live during rehearsals projections in the artist’s studio and played back as wild sound during the presentation in loose synch with the image.