Deferred, Referred >

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With ‘Deferred, Referred’, Luke Munn continues an inquiry into sound composition and execution. Here, Munn has created a contained and controlled web window through which a herd of sound-streaming sites are ushered in the space of a few minutes. The burden of production is offloaded onto a host of ready-made sound sources, and responsibility for playback is deflected onto the user.

The result? A tumultuous audio collage of processed J-pop stations, flight recordings, YouTube residue, embedded MIDI tracks, unknown Myspace artists and discarded homepages. In the stream of broken streamings, we leave sentences hanging, interrupt a sombre piano recital, snap the tail end off a baby's chuckle and are whisked from a looped festive MIDI ditty just as it begins to get comfortable, or annoying. The sites hopped through comprise a handful of the countless online hamlets that are a destination for few and accidental throughfare or miles off the beaten path for others. Like a smack-bang whirlwind tour of the internet’s midlands, the viewer is taken on a course of redirection, every arrival swiftly succeeded by departure.

Luke Munn is a Berlin-based New Zealander whose work incorporates
sound composition, performance and new-media. In his live performances he utilises small objects such as glass pieces, activating and manipulating them through electronics, with a focus on a physical, visual set of movements. His work explores composition, playback and interaction in a series of contemporary pieces that mine NASDAQ data, human DNA, or moods taken from Facebook Updates to generate unique soundscapes. Projects have been included in the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the Venice Biennale Eventi Collaterali, Something New Chicago, and other festivals and exhibitions.