Responding to the concerns of Manifesto for Sustainable Experimentation Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart of Dubmorphology take over Beaconsfield's new sound facility, BEMS+V (Beacon Electronic Music Studio+Visuals) to explore expanding relationships to sound. Working with participants using hydrophone and geophone censors, among other devices, the duo call attention to environmental relationships - bodies, plants and architecture - through the observation of infrasonic sound, at the same time exploring collaborative composition techniques.
Dubmorphology’s work emerges from the artists’ direct response to specific sites and environments, exploring social and political issues through a combination of historical and contemporary material. They play with fractured montage techniques, questioning where truth, if at all, lies and how it is constructed through culture and ways of seeing, hearing and sensing our world. The work incorporates elements of dub and musique concrète which functions as a binding agent for disparate visual material that is bound together by what might be dubbed ‘post-soul noise’.
Commissioned internationally and widely in UK by national institutions such as Tate Modern, V&A and Royal Academy of Arts, Dubmorphology is a London based research, production and performance project that creates sonic and visual environments to navigate the complex and ambiguous territory of social conflict.The core collective is comprised of artists Trevor Mathison, a founding member of the seminal group Black Audio Film Collective and Gary Stewart of Bantu and a founding member of the InIVA team; the organisation that has done so much to raise the profile of Black artists in Britain.Working through the sonic and visual lenses of radical possibility, they draw on experiences as children born in Britain of post-war migrants to create new and oblique relations to received meaning.
