TYMPANIC TETHER
10-channel sound, text, performance
Santozeum
Santorini, Greece
While searching for mythological and contemporary identities of the ‘siren’ on Santorini, the island claimed by Plato as the one time Atlantis, Curtis collaborated with volcanologists, firefighters, policemen, bird-breeders, ambulance-drivers, goat-farmers and airport personnel on a new aural-warning siren for that volcanic island, based in field-recordings rather than tritones. Over the course of a month-long residency with the Santozeum, he amassed an audio-library of 'siren-candidates' resulting in an hour-long live spatialized sound composition entitled Tympanic Tether, with accompanying text (written in collaboration with Hermione Spriggs), performed as part of Aural Lighthouses; an international symposium exploring sound and natural catastrophe, organized by PS1: Fluids States.
Made with generous support by the Santozeum, Santorini Hospital, Police and Fire Department, the Santorini Airport and Military Base, The Institute for the Monitoring of the Santorini Volcano, PS1 Fluid States; Performances of Unknowing, Ileana and Peter Nomikos.
