WET SOUNDS
Multi-channel sound and light experiences in pools
Wet Sounds in Toronto 7th Sept
Produced by ArtSpin > tickets here
Depths غمق - a dance video commission
Depths غمق
Produced by Newtoy for a commission by Farnham Malting in the UK and Orient Productions in Egypt.
Choreographer: Shaymaa Shoukry
Editor and composer: Joel Cahen
Dancers: Shaymaa Shoukry, Farahnaz Hany, Salma Salem
Videographer: Shahir Maged Mikhail
Filmed on location in the Red Sea and edited and composed in Kent, UK
Completed Nov 2022. Official selection at the Neum underwater Film Festival 2023.
Adelaide 2018
Moscow 2019
Moscow 2019
Using a unique multi-channel sound setup in vertical alignment above and below the water surface that activates listening spaces on different levels.
The music uses sound materials from acoustic and electronic instruments, field recordings and voice, that are manipulated into a 45min soundscape.
Audiences are quite literally completely immersed in an experience of sound like no other.
Underwater sound is immediate, clear and detailed.
It is perceived by bone conduction.
Both sides of the surface have distinct music playing through them, heard together only by floating on the surface.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A unique and sensory experience. ABC Australian National Television
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Most definitely the most unusual Fringe performance I have ever seen. All Over Adelaide
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ other-worldly, immersive experience like you've never had before. Channel 44 Adelaide
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "...It's astonishingly immediate, inescapable, and faintly perplexing" - The Guardian
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “ below the water, harmonies can turn haunting.... Here submerged in sound, the audience get to be in control” – BBC Television News
London 2019
Wet Sounds has installed in pools worldwide since 2008 and in festivals such as:
Red Bull Music Festival Moscow
Red Bull Music Festival Montreal,
ISEA RUHR
All Tomorrow’s Parties
Ultima Festival
Mutek
Adelaide Fringe (winner best show 2018)
Macau Festival
Helsinki Festival
Brighton Festival
and many more
Some facts about our relationship with
WATER
We are 70% water. We are buoyant.
We spend the first nine months of our lives immersed in liquid.
The world outside the womb is first revealed to us through
SOUND
Wet Sounds is a Newtoy production. Newtoy explores notions of self empowerment through artistic experiences. www.newtoy.org
