Paul Farmer artist writer filmmaker

one week when the surface is clear you can see the sand below

This work is a moving image/ sound/ space/ text installation that formed part of the Live At the Gnome Club exhibition by the LiveAt group of artists at Falmouth Wharf 9th - 16th December 2011. It is a mixed media installation that explores consciousness as a reshaping of our experience in the form of narratives that are our means of structuring and assimilating the phenomena of existence through the events of one week of my life, beginning on my birthday, November 26th 2011.
The sound element mimics the form of a dichotic listening experiment, one of the tools used by psychologists to investigate the nature of consciousness.
Much of the spoken text is the work of scientists and philosophers studying this field - Daniel C. Dennett, Thomas Nagel, David Chalmers. Other text is by Eric Lormand and some from the website Quantum mind - exploring quantum theories of consciousness.

one week when the surface is clear you can see the sand below - image/ sound elements

the image and audio content of my video/ dichotic sound/ text/ space installation 'one day when the surface is clear you can see the sand below' from the exhibition Live At the Gnome Club, Falmouth Wharves, December 2011.
This sounds much better in stereo than mono. Dichotic sound experiments use simultaneous audio streams so psychologists can, for example, measure the effect on comprehension of one stream of information by causing the subject to focus on the other. Two voices are used simultaneously here, seperated into left and right audio channels so you can carry out diy dichotic sound experiments all of your own. If it's all coming out of the same speaker it may soon turn into a form of torture. But I suppose this too would be a kind of investigation of the nature of consciousness.

one week when the surface is clear you can see the sand below - installation

The installation for one week when the surface is still you can see the sound below in the exhibition Live At the Gnome Club, Falmouth Wharves, December 2011.This gives an idea of the overall nature of the installation, of which the above moving image/ sound formed a part.