About TYPELOOPS
TYPELOOPS is a site-responsive performative work that began with a long loop of paper moving continuously between 2 typewriters.
What started as an exercise in collaborative, and durational, writing, now incorporates sound recording and transmitting processes. It has become a meditation on, and framework for, correspondence, collaboration, and communication.
It was first performed for 2 days 08.09.2024 + 15.09.2024 working from sunrise (c.6:30) to sunset (c.19:30) at Hull Artist Research Initiative (HARI), in Hull.
The location of HARI, in a former industrial part of the city centre, became a collaborator – as did the interactions on the pavement and the views from the roof. So too, the dilapidated interior of the building.
An artist-photographer was invited to document some of the performance. These photos became part of the outcomes of this piece of work.
Above photo credits – Emily Fratson
Some scans of the TYPELOOP document.
A second performance took place at Electro Studios Project Space (ESPS), in St.Leonards-on-Sea as a part of Present Voices – 3-days of live performance and time-based media – on 15.03.2025 + 16.03.2025. For this version we invited an artist to provide a ‘documentation performance’. Microphones were attached to the typewriters, the paper loop, and the space. Two cassette players created a delay and sound-on-sound signal loop, along with live digital processing. The output was then played back into the space.
The work used a long corridor running parallel to the sea shore, accessible through doors at both ends, and visitors were encouraged to walk up and down beside the paper.
Some scans of the TYPELOOP document.
1 … I tried to explain last night the multi-going-ons …
2 … a sense that someone else lives here …
3 … not for this, not to be read here …
4 … it is still spooling onto the floor …
For the digital and physical (CD + Cassette Tape) release of TYPELOOPS // documentation performance – we created packaging that included a paper loop.
The third iteration is a site responsive piece to be performed at Trinity Methodist Church in Hull this summer. Using the methods of microtransmission and UHF broadcasting, TYPELOOPS // radio play is a site performance exploring the accumulation of text and its revision and dissemination across radiowaves.
The performance uses the text and audio recordings from previous TYPELOOPS performances as its source material. Text is brought into the space through live and pre-recorded human voice and Text To Speech technologies. The performance utilises microtransmitters and receivers to control the placement and audibility of the text, filling the space with multiple transmissions from different sound sources.
The portable receiver becomes a live device, physically placed and moved around the room to materialise the sounds, analogous to the way text comes into existence through the act of being read.
The sonic landscape that emerges is a recursion of previous work through live revision and interaction with the created space.
