Week 53: Field

In his latest solo project FIELD, Martin Messier assumes that it is possible to create sounds using electromagnetic fields of our environment.

These residual and imperceptible electric signals are picked with electromagnetic transducer microphones, and become generators of the performance. On stage, he plays with two connections patches that offer many possibilities to connect many outputs to many inputs. By a continuous movement of plugging and unplugging, Messier interacts with them, thus a mesmerising noise and light composition emerges.

With FIELD, Messier makes material this flow of power otherwise inaudible and invisible.