GUEST ARTIST #5
Christopher Haworth: Demonstrations (2025)
Sound Installation
Friday, November 14, 2025, 18:00 (opening & artist talk)
@ SP•CE [Billrothstraße 6/2, 1190 Vienna]
Further opening hours: November 15 to 18, 2025, 18:00-21:00
Part of the AUDIO GHOSTS Guest Artists Series.
GUEST ARTIST #5
Christopher Haworth: Demonstrations (2025)
Sound Installation
In scientific contexts, a demonstration refers to a public presentation of a naturally occurring phenomena. A famous representation is Joseph Wright of Derby’s 1768 painting An Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump, in which the surrounded dignitaries bear witness to a bird being deprived of air. The authority of a demonstration lies in making public something self-evident and true. Yet the constructed and spectacular nature of a demonstration opens a up an intriguing fissure, whereby to recognise the fundamental principles on show we must be able to ignore the ‘synthetic’ aspects of the presentation–the isolation of the phenomena from a world, and the various competencies required to verify it as true. This installation stages a series of demonstrations of auditory phenomena whose truth varies according to context and competency.
[Christopher Haworth, September 2025]
Christopher Haworth
Christopher Haworth is a composer and musicologist. His creative work brings methods associated with modernist composition into dialogue with popular electronic music in ways that emphasise the surreal and absurd. In 2023, Auditory Distortion Synthesis, a short record collecting different methods he has developed for synthesising difference tones, was released by Superpang; also that year, his work expanding on these techniques (with Rodrigo Cadíz and Esteban Guittérez) won the ICMC best paper award. Other research papers have been published by Computer Music Journal, Organised Sound, Leonardo Music Journal and others.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/music/haworth-christopher
Boundary Objects: Perceptual and epistemic slipperiness in WSS (weirdo sound synthesis)
Christopher Haworth will also give a talk about his work as part of the AUDIO GHOSTS Symposium 2025.
Further details here.