the city is an ear (2022)
sound sculpture & performance created by Elizabeth Jigalin in collaboration with lighting designer/programmer Nick Barnett.
Commissioned by BackStage Music and premiered by Elizabeth Jigalin on 6 November 2022, BackStage Music’s: CLARITY ENGINE, curated by Lamorna Nightingale and Damian Barbeler @ Woodburn Creatives, Waterloo, Australia.
the city is an ear is a network of 88 ears hidden around Sydney. Whilst walking 40km across Sydney in two days, Elizabeth hid ears and collected beautifully noisy sounds from across the city to create a listening/light instrument embedded into the frame of a discarded piano skeleton.
Photos: Oliver Miller
video experiment featuring ears 1-44
the city is an ear (lite) performance on 9 March 2023, Sekret Sounds, curated by Nick Wishart @ 107 Projects, Redfern.
Interview by BackStage Music with Lamorna Nightingale, Elizabeth Jigalin and Isabella Rahme.