BUBBLEFLUX

Live Bubble Transformations, Fixed Media
and Graphic Video Score

Bubbleflux is a fun audience participation piece, celebrating the joy and importance of the sounds of bubbles. 

It is a composition for 8 unrehearsed performers from the audience. The performers perform to the instructions of a large projected bubble video score, which also incorporates a pre-recorded soundtrack of transformed bubble sounds. The performers create the bubble sounds by using bubblewrap, large straws in containers of water of various depth, and containers dunked in larger vessels. The audience join in at specific moments, creating the sounds of bubbles bursting by finger popping their mouths.  These sounds are amplified and processed live.

The inspiration for this piece came from a fascinating TV programme presented by physicist Dr. Helen Czerski on bubble technology which revealed a world dedicated to the study of bubble acoustics.

“Bubbles are proving to be incredibly useful to the modern world.  The next really important use of bubbles is connected to one of their most surprising properties – their relationship with sound.  This has all sorts of consequences, everywhere from industry to medical research.”

World Premiere: Light and Sharpness Concert - The Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge)  2013