In The Hands of Passing Time (2024)
Skylight Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Video documentation of the debut install of "In The Hands of Passing Time" in Oslo, November 2024.
B&W hand processed 16mm film, stereo sound, projectors, mirror, wooden frame.
Film 1 - 2:40 mins, 100ft projection loop (contained within loop machine) shot on location in southern Iceland.
Film 2 - 0:50 second projection loop (film looped around the space) shot in Oslo featuring Ånund and Marie.
Sound - 9 minute tape loop drone produced by @mplus1mplus1 (Jordan MacRae)
Huge thanks to: Ånund Engebret, Marie Cole, Greg Pope, Mathias Eugen Engen and Anton Olausson.
Lighthouse (2023)
Installation comprised of slide projector, interval timer, handmade slides, prism + stereo speakers. The slide projector installed in a third floor room is controlled by an interval timer moving carousel of slides forward every 45 seconds. Each slide in the carousel is a handmade single colour piece of film which “gels” the projector bulb changing the colour every instance. The projector’s lens has been removed which creates a large circular unfocused spot of light on the wall, the light is obscured by a prism hanging from the ceiling of the room. The prism spins autonomously refracting the coloured light around the room. One full cycle of the instal lasts around 15 minutes before restarting and cycling through the colours again, the soundscape continues to loop. Viewers are invited into the dark room for as many cycles of the work as they like. Recommended viewing is at night and whilst sat comfortably on the floor / bean bag.
Installed in Glasgow, December 2023. Lighthouse V1 by Jordan MacRae. Soundscape by Jordan MacRae.
‘hair.wav’
Exhibition was open at Listen Gallery in Glasgow from the 21st to the 28th of April 2024.
Exhibition by Emma Diamond. Film by Jordan MacRae. Sound by Emma Diamond and Loris S. Sarid.
'hair.wav' is a sound piece created by Emma Diamond and Loris S Sarid, made with recordings of hair being cut, washed, razored, touched. It accompanies a short film by Jordan MacRae and Emma as part of the 'hair.wav' exhibition at Listen Gallery in Glasgow.
Emma Diamond is a hair stylist and sound artist from Glasgow, debuting with an exhibition that blends the worlds of sound and hair, exploring their connection. The piece was realised collecting recordings of Emma working with hair, emphasising the proximity and intimacy of the experience. Similarly to Emma's approach to cutting hair, the track wants to maintain the natural texture and organicity of the sounds collected, for this reason no effects were used apart re-pitching and stretching the sound sources. Melodic and unexpected sounds are the result of the extremely stretched recordings, to which occasional eq-ing was applied.
The short film deepens the abstract and organic feel of the sound piece, zooming in and immersing into lights and details of hair, creating visual playgrounds that sounds can inhabit. Embracing the same limitations as the sound work, decisions were made in camera with minimal post production. Shot in black and white with no colour grading, overlays or soft transitions. Slow visual abstractions, refraction of light and hair interacting with prisms and water.
Wise Men Say (2023)
60 second cassette loop in tape machine, stereo speakers.
Prompted by a dart thrown at a large map of Glasgow, this project is a chance operation. The dart landed on a Catholic primary school in the east end of the city.
To invite further chance into the work an Oblique Strategies card was then pulled. The card reads “the tape is now the music”.
Jordan’s primary mediums are image and sound recording which initially created concerns about the red tape surrounding making a piece of work around the school, but committed to honouring the dart’s true landing position and using this as the base of the work Jordan requested a cassette tape from the School library. Any tape they were willing to part with, intending to sample the tape and rework into a looping sound installation. The resulting tape is Cumbernauld Male Voice Choir. A greatest hits from Cumbernauld’ as finest community choir group. Jordan elected to rework their cover of Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling in Love”.
The original tape was digitised and reworked in Ableton into a 60 second loop which was then recorded to a DIY cassette loop tape which can repeat itself forever, or until one goes insane from the dulcet tones of Cumbernauld’s elders.
(Digital B&W video documentation of studio set up with 4 track and stereo speakers.) You can find the original recording on Youtube uploaded by Roger Milligan if you’re interested in hearing the sampling material.
“Proof of Concept” Installation (2023)
Loft space install of hung gauze sheets, wall mounted projector and inside walkway channel for full immersive experience. Mounted stereo speakers with loop of music/sound design by Moderplusone (Jordan MacRae)
Video art images projected feature loops from work Pen On Paper, Sunshine on Hand*.
Film by Jordan MacRae, huge thanks to Jamie Cooper for his support + assistance throughout.
“Proof of Concept” Installation (2023)
Loft space install of hung gauze sheets, wall mounted projector and inside walkway channel for full immersive experience. Mounted stereo speakers with loop of music/sound design by Moderplusone (Jordan MacRae)
Video art images projected feature loops from an ongoing bank of visual experiments I am building.
Film by Jordan MacRae, huge thanks to Jamie Cooper for his support + assistance throughout.
These are only proof of concept only and were installed privately with zero budget.