For this performance, Gusty collaborated with Anelena Toku to acticvate the installation Untitled (2024-2025), using field recordings, contact mics, analogue & modular synths and guitar pedals. The interactions with the materials in displacement create live soundscapes, exploring notions of tension between the body, objects, and the physical infrastructure that surrounds us in the city.
Untitled, 2024-2025
Steel, plastic, stone, spray paint
250x250x200cm
Release Device is a structure built with sections of steel and fragments of perforated metal sheet used to block vacant properties in public spaces. This structure is assembled with analogue synthesisers and contact mics that are played live. In this installation blue lights replicate an atmosphere found in some public spaces, allegedly used to prevent crime and suicide. Sculptures made out of steel handrails with sharp edges also composed this installation.
Release Device (3rd iteration), 2025. Image credit: Justine Trickett
Release Device is a structure built with sections of steel and fragments of perforated metal sheet used to block vacant properties in public spaces. This structure is assembled with analogue synthesisers and contact mics that are played live. In this iteration of the work Gusty used samplers of field recordings and spoken words combined with sounds from analogue drum machine.
Release Device (2nd iteration), 2024
MELT at Taco in the context of the exhibition Hello Neighbours, 2024
Hello Neighbours, view of the exhibition at TACO, London, 2024 https://taco.org.uk/Hello-Neighbours
Hello Neighbours, view of the exhibition at TACO, London, 2024 https://taco.org.uk/Hello-Neighbours
Hello Neighbours, view of the exhibition at TACO, London, 2024 https://taco.org.uk/Hello-Neighbour
Hello Neighbours, view of the exhibition at TACO, London, 2024 https://taco.org.uk/Hello-Neighbours
Night Shift, moving image, sound, 4’, 2024
Night Shift, multi-channel video installation and sound, 4’, loop, 2024. Moving image recorded with infra-red camera in the Lesnes Estate (Thamesmead). The work is accompanied by anonymous letter proposing the creation of a local Residents Association.
Untitled (8), 2024. For this site responsive work a sculpture was installed in a enclosed space behind a perfurated metal mesh. Above the sculpture a sound controlled light device is activated by the recording of a soundscape, made with modular, analogue synthesiser and composed in situ specifically for the installation.
Untitled (8), 2024
Live improvisation in event hosted by Pro Bristo at Bolderāja, Riga, 2025. Gusty played with analog and modular synths using field recordings from Thamesmead, once known as “the town of tomorrow”.