ELANA BINYSH



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Sound Designer for I think it was a feeling


Contents of this page:
  1. About the project and the role
  2. The process
  3. Dates, the fee and location
  4. How to apply
  5. Application process details


1. About the project and the role

I’m looking for a sound designer for a new piece of work called I think it was a feeling. It’s a recorded headphone piece for an audience member to do at home alone. It uses choreographic instructions and experimental poetry and takes about half an hour. The work has ACE Project Grants funding and is supported by Submerge Festival. 

I think it was a feeling is about invisible disability and being stuck at home alone, sick, and the imaginative processes you use as coping mechanisms as part of this. It’s also about incontinence, specifically piss. It asks the listener to reconsider their relationship to bodily fluids, separate from the societal shame, and to think about pissing yourself as a sensory act. It’s structurally experimental and invites audiences to engage with their domestic space as a performance space. 

I’m a live artist who normally works collaboratively and this is my first headphone piece. I’m looking to work with someone who has an active, critical, queer relationship to Disability which informs the work you make and how you make it. As much as anything, this work is a rejection of Enabled ideas about what Disability is, and an engagement with/interrogation of Disability in all its uncomfortable disgusting political radical furious hopeful glory. 


2. The process

I’m looking for a sound designer to collaborate with on the overall score of the work. I want to create a process with whoever I work with that's right for both of our practices and so the following is an initial idea of how I think it could work: 

I imagine the process will start with conceptual conversations and sharing references in order to come to shared conclusions about the sonic language. Then I’ll give bits of text as impetus, and the designer can send offers back, which we will discuss and collaborate on, before moving onto a final draft. The designer will be responsible for mixing and mastering the final edit, ready for audience members. 


3. Dates, the fee and location

The creation period starts at the beginning of September, and the work needs to be completed by the end of November. 

The fee is £2100 and we’ll figure out the timeline within the September to November 2024 period together.

The work can happen remotely, in person in London or a mix of the two, I have no preference. 


4. How to apply

To apply please send a piece of audio you’ve made that you feel proud of and answer two questions:

1.  Talk about the piece of audio you’ve sent
I would like to hear about your process, what you like about what you made and anything you would change. I’d also like to hear about how it represents your practice.

2. What is it about I think it was a feeling that is exciting to you?
I would like to hear about both how you feel creatively inspired by the brief, and your relationship to Disability and how it informs your work.

Please do not spend long on this.  A couple of unvarnished sentences are great, or whatever you need to get your point across.

If you would like to apply by written response please fill in this Google form.
If you would like to apply by audio or video response please fill in this Google form.

There’s a section to attach your access rider/send any access needs. 


5. Application process dates

Deadline to apply: Monday 29th July 2024 by 10am

I will let you know if you are invited to interview by: Wednesday 7th August 2024

Interviews organised for: Tuesday 13th August and Wednesday 14th August 2024


If you have any questions/access enquiries, please email access.e.binysh@gmail.com