the megaphone project

"the megaphone project" is an interactive installation that encourages discovery and participation in a game of sound and physical play.

Fourteen striking red megaphones of various shapes and sizes recreate the miracle of wireless tin can telephones. The joyful manipulations of voices from the local community are naturally reinforced through simple acoustics, with varying time delays, allowing voices to mysteriously and ambiguously return. The audience creates a lively environment of play and enjoyment that is all their own invention.

From time to time, the sounds from the megaphones combine to form a chorus that blends its voices and effects into a cohesive sonic whole. The art, and the performance, is thus co-created by the passers-by.

The artists’ aesthetic is shaped by ideas of a democratic and decentralised mode of cultural production, one that invites audience members who encounter the work to express themselves in gesture and voice.