Lewis Gittus
My name is Lewis Gittus and I am a Melbourne-based composer, artist and sound designer with a practice that spans pop-music, immersive installation, video and text. These fields remain connected via an ongoing interest in synthesis, artifice and the human body. Throughout my practice, sound is foregrounded for its ability to conjure ephemeral impressions of both objects and spaces, at once familiar and monstrous.
The two videos presented on this page serve to document an installation from March 2020 in which sound and image were spatially separated across two discrete spaces. In one room, amorphous clouds of alien bodily noises surged from two speakers and a subwoofer. Devoid of higher frequencies, these filtered waves of sonic debris imply their spatial origin as the body’s interior, where lungs, throat and arteries jostle while aligning themselves towards new purposes. In the adjacent room, video footage of the studio recording process plays across three TV monitors, smearing the body’s exterior across an entire length of the wall.
Further works from my MFA research project can be accessed via the website listed below.
Estuaries - Room 1, 2020
Sound
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Estuaries - Room 2, 2020
3-channel video
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