Video (2004)
Single screen video with stereo audio (01:02)
All Ears: A new Sonic Landscape (2005)
Live performance
A site-specific performance using the natural resonant frequencies of the room to manipulate the behaviour of sounds and the audiences’ experience of them. Using the unique way in which sound behaves in the space, the piece envelopes the audience within pulsing, ringing and humming sounds of resonance and reverberation weaved throughout a hypnotic musical performance.
Originally a site-specific performance, when the 5.1 recording of the piece is played in other locations it transfers all of the acoustics of the original venue to those spaces, bringing resonance to dampened rooms and space to small environments.
Created in collaboration with Nick Acons and Jim Walker.
Supported by Arts Council England.
This was my first Arts Council England Project Grant - within first year of graduating from my BA.
In My Good Ear (2006)
Live performance
Following the success of her previous composition 'All Ears', Alison worked again with Nicholas Acons and Jim Walker to create another site-specific performance using the natural resonant frequencies of the room to manipulate the behaviour of sounds and the audiences’ experience of them. This time the addition of Amy Nicholson on cello brought more depth and harmony to the piece, enhancing the atmosphere of the composition and complementing the violins.Using the unique way in which sound behaves in the space, the piece envelopes the audience within pulsing, ringing and humming sounds of resonance and reverberation weaved throughout a hypnotic musical performance.
Originally a site-specific performance, when the 5.1 recording of the piece is played in other locations it transfers all of the acoustics of the original venue to those spaces, bringing resonance to dampened rooms and space to small environments.
Created in collaboration with Nick Acons, Jim Walker and Amy Nicholson.
Supported by Arts Council England.
Wires & Bows (2009)
Single screen video with stereo audio
An experimental animation comparing the sounds of violins with the movements of telegraph wires from a moving train.
Created in collaboration with filmmaker Andrew Brand: www.andrewbrand.co.uk/
Pod (2009)
Multi-media installation (AV equipment, PVC spheres)
An interactive installation giving physical form and shape to low frequency sound at the cusp of human hearing.
The audience is invited to touch the ‘pods’, feeling the resonance that low frequency sound creates upon the skin of these large blue spheres, and to press their ears to the surface to listen to the humming sounds within. ‘Pod’ translates the low frequency sounds into a visual object to be heard, seen and felt. With their own physical presence, the sounds can be experienced in new ways, associating a size and shape with the frequencies being heard.
Created in collaboration with Artist and Technologist Mike Blow.
https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2086/17275/Blow_mockref%20opt.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
(p.16-17)
The Consequence of Noise and Silence (2013)
video, audio, 1 min 40 sec
https://www.alisonballard.com/the-consequence-of-noise-and-silence
Her Noise Archive: Symbol of Democracy or Communist Uprising? (2012)
video, 5 mins 12 secs
https://www.alisonballard.com/her-noise-archive-gallery
Acoustic Boundaries (2012)
A Listening Walk for the Barbican Centre, London.
mp3 to be listened to via a loudspeaker (not via headphones).
Narrating The Barbican (2013)
Promenade Performance, 20 mins
Created and performed as part of Hack The Barbican.
https://www.alisonballard.com/narrating-the-barbican
Wasted Labour (2015)
video installation, audio, looping
https://www.alisonballard.com/wasted-labour
PRODUCER
Museum of Contemporary Commodities (MoCC) (2015)
Furtherfield Gallery, London
https://www.furtherfield.org/museum-of-contemporary-commodities-free-market/
Colony (2016-2020)
Multi-media installation (AV equipment, PVC spheres)
https://www.hogarthproductions.co.uk/AandE/Colony_files/Colony%20Promo%20Pack.pdf
https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2086/17275/Blow_mockref%20opt.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
(page 8-10)
Everyday Fiction (2016)
Geo-locative Audio App / Audio Book, 30 mins
To be listened to in-situ in Chalkwell Park, Southend-on-Sea.
Commissioned by Metal Southend.
Supported by Arts Council England.
Livestream of Consciousness (2016)
Livestream video, 20 mins
Created while in-residence at Metal, Chalkwell Park, Southend-on-Sea.
Rhythm Of Effort II (2016)
single-screen projection, stereo audio, looping
in collaboration with Martin Lewis
SOLO SHOW
Offline Is The New Luxury (2017)
Furtherfield, London
The Narrator Is Present (2017)
performance, audio, live-stream online, duration variable
How can we distinguish fictional narrative from truth among the multitude of disembodied voices on the Internet?
As visitors enter the gallery, an unknown narrator describes their actions. Their narrative may be an accurate documentary of real-life events or the narrator may stray into fiction - sometimes playful, sometimes troublingly divisive in nature. Being watched, potentially around the world, whether audiences choose to protest, play along, or simply observe, is their choice.
Existing simultaneously in the gallery and online, the work exploresthe dualistic experiences of the virtual and the physical, and the ways in which these two spaces contribute to a single reality.
https://www.alisonballard.com/the-narrator-is-present-gallery
The Inner Voice (2016)
single-screen projection, silent, 01 min 40 sec, looping
https://www.alisonballard.com/inner-voice
PRODUCER
Museum of Contemporary Commodities (MoCC) (2017)
Royal Geographical Society, Exhibition Road, London
http://www.moccguide.net/
PRODUCER
Furtherfield, London
Children of Prometheus (2017)
https://www.furtherfield.org/children-of-prometheus/
Are We All Addicts Now? (2017)
https://www.furtherfield.org/are-we-all-addicts-now/
Open Studio - Studio 4 Residency - Chisenhale Studios (2018)
With Martin Lewis
An exhibition of work-in-progress made during our Studio4 Residency at Chisenhale Studios.
(the letting-go of gym equipment usage and the beginning of “A Man Or A Woman Counting Time / An Hour
https://www.alisonballard.com/news
An Hour (2020) (Online)
performance, 60 mins
https://www.alisonballard.com/an-hour-2020