A collaborative audio/visual performance as part of Soundwave's Biennial Festival. Every other year, the SonicLAB kicks off a new theme for the festival with a series of events with invited artists and musicians. Zoey Vero and I were invited to explore the architecture and acoustics of Battery Townsley, an old historic bunker from WWII that was ultimately abandoned after the cold war.

Using the network of underground passages and cavernous concrete spaces, the space was re-imagined in a series of soundscapes and visual compositions to examine the interplay between its environment situated on the bluffs of Marin Headlands, its secretive history as a military defense post in WWII, followed by a center for missile research, and its subsequent use as an abandoned escape for local vandals. The virtual journey into each room explores their function through visuals and audio. Footsteps echo in the hallways as the piece moves between rooms and illuminate the different acoustic qualities and historical significance of each space. In a combination of composed and generative audio, the musical elements reflect a history of electronic music from WWII to the 1980's with cues from musique concrete, electroacoustic tape music, granular synthesis, and electronic music.

Performed for Soundwave SF [[7]] Architecture. August 2015, Marin Headlands.

Max/MSP, ProTools