Zhuo Mengting and Andrej Bako: Sine Surge

Reciprocal Gestures: movement in dialogue is a two-day programme of expanded dance and movement, gathering artists and communities to explore the sustaining and transformative potential of movement-based practices.

Sine Surge is a new work-in-progress by Andrej Bako and Zhuo Mengting, bringing electro-acoustic sound and movement into dialogue through a shared system of oscillation. A household speaker, microphone and suspended string form a fragile system of vibration, feedback and response, activated by the body in space. The work draws parallels between sine waves and tidal motion, exploring how repeated forces gather, accumulate, shift, drift and fall away.

For Reciprocal Gestures, the artists will present the project as a movement-led dialogue between two practices, asking how sound can move, how movement can listen, and how bodies negotiate forces beyond full control.

All ages welcome, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

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About the artists

Zhuo Mengting (b. Guangzhou, China, 1990) composes situations with site, sound, body and time, in the forms of performance, participatory installation, and concerts. Often minimalist, subtle and intimate, her work invites the audience to investigate themes of connection, transmission, contingency and distance. Sonically, she is exploring the politics of listening - the creation, reception and manipulation of signals - as well as the liminal points where sound and space intersect, through a series of happenings predominantly using non-instruments, unwanted noise, found objects and the body. Recent scores were developed for MAO Torino, Italy, Frieze London, and Cafe OTO London, UK. 

Andrej Bako (b. Cardiff, Wales) is a London-based sound artist with roots via Greece, Slovakia and Wales. Through installation, site specific work and performance he researches ideas around collective cultural memory, human agency and our impact on the natural world, inviting the audience to create new connections to the unheard; the nuanced rhythm and sounds uncovered from our environment. He uses laptop electronics, modular synthesis and field recordings to compose intricate soundscapes, combining algorhythmic and generative techniques alongside musical influences of 90’s Detroit techno and dub.