The LA440 project addresses questions of standardization through the frequency of the tuning fork. The research focuses on the fabrication of harmony, of agreeing, of doing the same thing, at the same time, in the same way, in short, of standardizing our behavior.
Using sound, spatial and physical devices, the piece questions the mechanisms of template fabrication.
Using conventional but hijacked sound elements, LA440 seeks to experience a complex sonic environment creating an interdependence between the "machine" and the human.
Bodies experience a sound device that constrains them: alarm clocks, radios, loop pedals, amplifiers, microphones, cables and music boxes all play their part in the effort to tune up and work together.
Subjectively, I set out to dissect our listening habits and behaviours, but more broadly I intend to create a sound and physical listening space around the orchestration of our daily lives, our musical standards and our intimate sensations of sound and frequency perception.

"A jig reduces the degree of freedom offered by a given environment, stabilizes a process and, in so doing, frees its user from a double burden - whether of memory load or muscular control. The notion of template can be extended beyond the original context of handwork." Contact - Matthew B. Crawford