Sound Seam by Aura Satz and Aleks Kolkowski - AV Festival 2010

’View an exclusive clip from the filmic installation of Sound Seam, Aura Satz’s collaboration with Aleks Kolkowski, which premiered at the Great North Museum Hancock in Newcastle as part of the AV Festival 2010. The film uses microscopic close-ups of gramophone grooves and the anatomy of the ear, while the accompanying music, composed by Aleks Kolkowski, includes wax cylinder recordings and otoacoustic sounds emitted by the ear. The intriguing forensic love story, which draws on the German poet Rilkes 1919 suggestion to play the coronal suture of the skull with a gramophone needle, is revealed by listening to the multi-channel soundtrack through a theatrical array of gramophone and phonograph horns, ear trumpets and an 8ft Auxetophone horn. Credits: Exhibition produced by AV Festival 10 in partnership with Great North Museum: Hancock. Funded by The Wellcome Trust and produced during an Artist Residency at the Ear Institute, UCL, London. Sound design produced with support from