Meeting House Square in Dublin’s Temple Bar just got a little more melodic with the arrival of the world’s first sound installation, controllable by mobile phone.
Designed by Dublin-based artist Sven Anderson, Continuous Drift is a sound installation integrated into the giant umbrellas in Meeting House Square.
Anyone entering the square can use their phone to change the sounds projected into the square through the project site, www.continuousdrift.com, where they can select from a catalogue of 21 ‘sonic atmospheres’ by Irish and international artists and collectives. These pieces range in duration from 45 seconds to over an hour.
Anyone can use their mobile device to turn these works on or off. When a piece is activated, it continues to play whether you stay or leave the square.
“The feeling of standing in the square and turning on one of these pieces is very powerful – as is the reciprocal action of turning one of them off,” said Anderson. “This level of active control and active listening is what I wanted to create through this artwork. It aims to empower people to begin questioning the urban soundscape, and through that, to become more conscious of other aspects of the city that can only be discovered through attention to these more atmospheric or ambient qualities.”
Continuous Drift is commissioned by Dublin City Council and takes place as part of Interacting with the City, the second strand of the Dublin City Public Art Programme. The project is funded from the Percent For Art Scheme through the Department of the Environment, Community & Local Government.
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