Curious Transpositions
A New York City Jewellery Week 2021 Virtual Exhibition Project
Most Drum &
Bass tracks are around 174 beats per minute.
For years now, the biggest source of inspiration for my jewellery is electronic dance music, specifically a subgenre known as Drum & Bass. Something that makes Drum & Bass stand out from other genres is its speed – most Drum & Bass tracks are around 174 beats per
minute.
I chose the title Curious Transpositions because my previous work had always been a form of transposition or translation of the music into a third dimension, but this project went a slightly different way:
When the pandemic hit, I found myself looking for community (like many of us) in online spaces. One of my favourite DJs (El Hornet from Pendulum) began live streaming DJ sets on a platform called Twitch, and I immediately became a regular viewer. Having never really
been to clubs and festivals before, this was a fascinating opportunity to learn about DJing, a foundational part of the electronic dance music scene, and I wanted to try and find a way of combining this new knowledge with my artistic practice. I came up with the idea of hosting my own live streamed DJ set, while wearing jewellery made specially for NYCJW21. I prepared a setlist of songs to play, and chose them by title, looking for songs that could be associated with jewellery, the goldsmithing process, or other parts of my artistic practice. The new work made for the event explored the method of mixing – blending one song into the next in a gradual way – one of simplest methods of DJing.
minute.
I chose the title Curious Transpositions because my previous work had always been a form of transposition or translation of the music into a third dimension, but this project went a slightly different way:
When the pandemic hit, I found myself looking for community (like many of us) in online spaces. One of my favourite DJs (El Hornet from Pendulum) began live streaming DJ sets on a platform called Twitch, and I immediately became a regular viewer. Having never really
been to clubs and festivals before, this was a fascinating opportunity to learn about DJing, a foundational part of the electronic dance music scene, and I wanted to try and find a way of combining this new knowledge with my artistic practice. I came up with the idea of hosting my own live streamed DJ set, while wearing jewellery made specially for NYCJW21. I prepared a setlist of songs to play, and chose them by title, looking for songs that could be associated with jewellery, the goldsmithing process, or other parts of my artistic practice. The new work made for the event explored the method of mixing – blending one song into the next in a gradual way – one of simplest methods of DJing.
