“Channelling Sessions” (also titled "The Last Medium") is a performance and sound work. In this performance, I invite three participants (channellers) to tune into the white noise in-between radio stations using an am radio. It is said that by listening to this white noise you can hear the big bang and the beginning of the universe. Once tuned into these sounds, the channellers begin to sing or mimic what they hear, producing a cacophony of sound that shift between the comprehensible and incomprehensible. Through this process the channellers shift between multi-dimensions, into the deep past through the present and into the future. In this work the channellers are based on the three norns (sometimes called witches or mediums), who in legend had special capabilities to see in the past, present, and future. Since first performing this work, I have developed it through performances in London, UK; Hong Kong, China; and Cork, Ireland. Each repetition of this performance brings new cacophonies and implications.
