Some Sounds of Some Summer
Sounds of Some Summer is a sprawling soundscape by Fremantle-based artist Bruno Booth, turning the city itself into an instrument. Across Walyalup (Fremantle), five microphones are discreetly installed — tuned to the sounds of the everyday — the wind, port, voices, traffic, and silence. These live audio streams feed into a central mixing station at the installation’s “epicenter,” where the city’s sounds, as summer awakens, are remixed in real time.
Sometimes quiet, sometimes dissonant, the soundscape is in constant flux — modulated by a rotating cast of invited “conductors and performers”, curated by Lyndon Blue. Using distortion, delay, and instruments to sculpt spontaneous compositions from everyday noise, each performer will create a layered audio experience that’s never the same twice.
Inspired by the brain’s Default Mode Network — a state of mind-wandering triggered by ambient stimuli — Booth’s installation offers a space for gentle drift, introspection and imaginative thought. It’s a work that invites you to listen differently: to find new meaning in the familiar, to be still inside a moving world. Bruno Booth’s innovative practice spans sculpture, technology and participation. With Some Sounds of Some Summer, he offers a quiet proposition: that a city might be found in its background noise.
Date and Time
13-30 Nov (Thur-Sun)
11am-8pm,
Performances & CONDUCTORS:
Sat 15 NOV Night – Mali Jo$e
Sun 16 Nov Day – Simon Charles
Sat 22 Nov Night – Alex Tandy
Sun 23 NOV Day – Mei Saraswati
Sat 29 NOV Night – Mothswatter
Locations
Epicenter/ LISTENING Location:
walyalup koort, Fremantle
Microphone locations:
Fremantle Pools, South Beach Dog Beach, Fishing Boat Harbour, Cappucino Strip.
Entry
Free
Image Credit
Photo: Duncan Wright
Bruno Booth has used a wheelchair for most of his life, interrupted by a short and unsuccessful career as an amateur stilt walker when he used prosthetic legs as a child. In his memory these leather and metal devices would not have been out of place on the set of some dystopian, apocalyptic epic – not in a cool and attractive Fury Road sort of way, more like the zombies in the original Walking Dead. The experience of wearing restrictive equipment left him with a dislike of tight fitting clothing, a love of speed and a need to reach over his head in supermarkets – as a child he made the decision to use a wheelchair as his primary mode of transport – and he’s never looked back (probably because he’s too busy looking out for sand pits on dark footpaths).
Having a disability has been a constant background hum throughout Bruno’s life. Kind of like a social tinnitus – you know it’s there but you try not to talk about it. It was only when he started to call himself an artist, without cringing too much, that he began to engage critically with what it meant to be categorised as disabled.
Fremantle Pool
10 Shuffrey St,
Fremantle
South Beach Dog Beach
Marine Terrace,
South Fremantle
Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour
Mews Rd,
Fremantle
Cappucino Strip
SOUTH TERRACE,
Fremantle
Event Information:
The epicenter or main viewing area is located at Kings Square at the High Street Mall, next to the Walyalup Civic Centre.
The installation can be entered at any time during opening hours.
Additionally one-off performances will take place at the scheduled times detailed on the Event Page. The performance can be entered at any time during the scheduled times.
This work is mostly outdoors. In the event of inclement weather the show may be delayed or cancelled.
Food & drink: Food will not be available on site. Fremantle’s West End has excellent food options closeby. Visit our Plan Your Visit section for our favourite cafes, restaurants and bars.
No water will be provided so please bring your own.
Parking:
FOMO Fremantle Car Park (closest) or along High Street.
Queen Street Car Park 4.
Parry Street Car Park
Public Transport: Kings Square is a short 6 minute walk from Fremantle Train Station, the final stop on the Fremantle line. Several local bus routes also stop nearby.
The main event space is located at Kings Square at the High Street Mall which is an large outdoor area with flat pavement and pathways.
Accessible toilets are located across the Square at Walyalup Civic Centre.
ACROD Parking spaces are available nearby on Adelaide St and Queen St, at FOMO Fremantle Car Park and Queen Street Car Park 4.
