Drydan Wilson 

This work consists of two sheets of steels on the ground in a square shape, connected to a speaker through a distortion pedal. When the steel is walked or moved on or something causes the steel to vibrate a sound plays through the speaker.  It was after hearing the sounds from a video of me skateboarding, I noticed the repetitions and rhythms of the sounds, the pop of the board, the grinding of steel and concrete and the slide of wood along metal, which lead me to explore the sonic potential of my work. I explored the sonic qualities of my everyday, for me, the sounds of skateboarding through the landscape. I aimed to make a work that could be presented in a way, that it gave anyone that interacted with the work a heighten experience of their everyday, through the distorted, amplified sound as a result of moving on the steel, be that through skateboarding, dancing or even simply walking.

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The text flows through the piece, in a snake like shape, a bit like the text of toy machine adverts in skateboard magazines, rejecting the traditional formalities of writing in straight lines one after another. The text suggests a path for moving around the work, leading the viewer over the steel to discover the sound element in the work. The “body of the snake” is made using the wheels of a skateboard inked up rolled along the surface, perhaps a path a skateboarder may take.

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In writing the text I drew inspiration from my reading and research of Noam Chomsky, Nato Thompson and Terrance McKenna. With an anarchist tone, where we should be active in our freedom, question authority, and create, protect and be responsible for our culture.

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To see the full exhibition this work was shown in click the link 

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