TONES AND TEXTURES IN WOOL AND SOUND - Collaboration with textile artist Natalie Miller. Exhibited at Open Field Festival, Berry, NSW 2023.

Tones and Textures in Wool and Sound is a collaboration between textile artist Natalie Miller and composer Amanda Cole. Natalie chose a palette of 16 colours of wool that Amanda used to map musical notes to. The large-scale woven tapestry is made with roving, unmilled wool, and woven in 4 large panels to create the dramatic, bold and textural pieces. Amanda has mapped the colour spectrum and an octave are divided with the same proportions to find the notes of the scale. Microtonal notes between the notes found on the piano are used, which come from the harmonic series. Both artist and composer have played with tones and textures to create this immersive installation. 

CORONAL MASS is a multi-channel sound installation that sonifies auroral monitoring data in real time. Working with live geomagnetic field data detected 100 km above the surface of the Earth CORONAL MASS maps the impact of solar winds on the ionosphere, tracking the electron exchange that gives rise to the Aurora Australis and Borealis. Occupying the zone between Earth and interplanetary space this project extends ordinary human perception: an electronically charged chord sweeping through the gallery in a powerful evocation of this immense interplanetary force.

Lead artist: Michaela Gleave
Composer: Amanda Cole
Programmer: Warren Armstrong
Sound Engineering: Bob Scott
Scientists: Martin Connors and Ian Schofield

 Twitter Hymn Book by Warren Armstrong and Amanda Cole 2010

Twitter Hymn Book (2010), an endless, self-generating sound installation created entirely from Twitter updates. This piece was selected as a finalist for the 2010 Blake Art Prize and was exhibited at the National Arts School gallery.