sonic shoebox

take a moment

Sit down on the stool, put on the headphones, and look through the peephole.

A contemporary repurposing of the cardboard diorama, Sonic Shoebox is a meditation on the fine line between living and dying. What drives people to freeze themselves, botox themselves, transplant themselves, re-make themselves … and is the outcome always a positive one?

From the team that brought you 2017’s ‘Earshot’ comes an intimate and comic viewing and listening experience. Part internal monologue, part sound design extravaganza, Sonic Shoebox asks the very important question: When are we really, truly … dead?

Presented at La Mama Theatre for War-Rak/Banksia Festival, December 2021.

Concept, writing, cardboard modelling by Kate Hunter

Sound design, electronics by Jem Savage

Additional coding by Ben Savage