Little Operations: Louise Devenish

Percussionist Louise Devenish, composer Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh and spatial designer Chris Cottrell came together in Substrate Structure, a collaborative investigation in musical and material texture towards a new work for percussion and electronics.

Stemming from the artists' explorations in the award-winning project Sheets of Sound (2019), Substrate Structure expanded the initial investigation into the sonic properties of sheet materials such as paper, aluminium, and acetate. This Little Operations development time was used to explore the sonic and performative capabilities of the materials and structure, and to begin devising a musical language for the work.