Sound CAD and Wireframe are site-specific, immersive architectural sound drawings. The concept was developed during a residency at E:vent Gallery where i worked with graduate students from the Architectural Association of Great Britain.

The installations are impossible to document:  they take place in total darkness, so there is nothing to photograph, and the sound is inextricably site-specific and dependent on 16 separate channels and a large subwoofer, so a stereo reduction would be virutally meaningless. 

This image is from an accompanying video installation by Moe Ekapob and Kevin Ling, two of the AA participants at E:vent. My idea for the sound installation came about in response to a CAD drawing made by Moe as an aid to the discussion of what we would do in this space. They in turn set out to work back from my ideas of rendering space with sound to investigate the notion of drawing within architectural practice and the perception of space through sound. 

The installation is an experimental attempt to make the equivalent of an animated architectural drawing on a 1:1 scale in situ using only sound. Both installations begin with a 3-dimensional ‘wireframe’ of sound which traces out the dimensions of the space. The walls, floor and ceiling are then 'rendered' with sound.  In the total absence of visual stimuli, the only way the gallery visitor can navigate the space is through sound.

Wireframe review in the Globe and Mail,
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