The Moment Under The Moment is a site-specific commission, a sound installation and composition created in 2017-18 for the underground Tiger Cages site in Middle Head National Park, Sydney NSW commissioned by Mosman Art Gallery. The site has had a long history of military uses dating back to colonial times including POW training during the Vietnam war. Spread across ten channels that visitors first experience as they walk through the sandstone entranceway tunnel and into the main space with voices and musical parts dividing the interior into a walkthrough composition. The installation responds to the evocative site and it’s various historical resonances using it as a theatre for investigating the shifting nature of illusion and actuality in our perception of the real. Equal parts a representation of Plato’s Cave, an elliptical radio play and a chamber opera inside a ready made set.
Entrance to site
As the site is part of the Middle Head National Park and under a heritage listing no alterations to the site were allowed nor was the addition of power to the site. The sound installation was designed to run on battery powered players and speakers hung as a spatial composition through the space.
Video walkthrough of site
Below are the 10 channels of sound as individual tracks:
Installation notes
