Mike Marshall

Marshall

(Photo credit: Loughborough Baths, c.1970s (University Archive))

The World Beneath You

November 2007

Beneath the floor of Loughborough's Charnwood Museum lies an old swimming pool. Towards the ceiling are the frames of windows long boarded up. Once, years ago, light would come in these, sparkling and glinting on the water’s surface. Its noise could not be heard (sunlight sounds at a frequency of 5500K), but if it was lowered to just within audible pitch (5500K is approximately 12trillion times middle D), it might sound like this…

Mike Marshall is a mixed media artist whose work explores the potential energy of site and moment.

Projects

You are the Music While the Music Lasts

A series of performances, recordings and installations exploring the utilization of sound in the navigation, negotiation and construction of space. Read more