Tube Lines (2008)
HD video, three-channel, colour, sound
5 minutes 44 seconds
Tube Lines is a series of works that engage with sound and the London Underground Network. By
placing singers on the platforms I pitch the human voice against the shifting sonic landscape of the underground. These voices battle with the mechanised din as well as the hum of commuter life. Operating on the very threshold of audibility the singer negotiates this unique geography by mimicking its resonating tones. The tube's shifting harmonic framework becomes a score for the performer's song as well as the site on which it operates. By pushing and pulling the dynamic of the sung intervention I intend to obfuscate these varying sound sources, mixing and blending the human with the technological.
Images show installations at Slade MA Degree Show 2008
and Brilliant Noise, Late at Tate, Tate Britain 2008
© Sam Belinfante 2008