01    Celeste





Collaborators











Sound Sculpture and Performance Space 
July 2023




Joe Hirst
Sarah The Sufi







Celeste begins with an image: a 12th-century manuscript drawing by Mesopotamian polymath Ismail Al-Jazari — the earliest known record of a music-making automaton. On a small boat sit four female robotic musicians, a device often described as the first programmable drum machine. It was these figures that caught me, and continue to captivate me.

Reimagined in this work into a sonic and air powered installation, comprised of sonic transistors, fans, wood and uniquley designed musical instruments A reverberation throughout the structure creates a vibrational healing field and perfromance space.