Audiovisual duo, Sculpture, aka musician Dan Hayhurst and visual artist Reuben Sutherland, combine animation, video art and unstable electronic music in transitory synaesthetic forms.

Catching a live AV set by Sculpture is to enter a maximal portal into their unique aesthetic. Genre tropes, temporal signs and perceptual associations are reconfigured in the moment seeking multisensory overload. A volatile simultaneity links the duo’s visual turntablism and metamorphic sound forms. With a camera mounted on a Technics turntable, Sutherland creates fever dream visuals with a chaotic library of zoetropic prints. Animation, tactile photo collage, and cutting edge digital technique combine in hyperkinetic patterns and op-art cuts. Hayhurst misuses samplers, tape loops, cassette players and CDJ deck to create an analogue/digital hybrid of outsider pop, experimental composition and improvised splatter that maximises the results of unexpected combinations.

Sculpture formed as a duo for an unrehearsed performance in 2008. They have since played worldwide and released polymedia byproduct on labels including:

Software Recordings: Daniel Lopatin/0PN’s label released Sculpture’s Membrane Pop LP followed by a live video/cassette hybrid, Video Plot

Psyché Tropes and LTR Records Max Ax Double 10″ Zoetrope LP

Dekorder: Zoetrope vinyl LPs, Rotary Signal Emitter and Toad Blinker

patten commissioned Slime Code, 7 unique cassette dubs + download for the kaleidoscope imprint. A vinyl edition followed on Digitalis: Slime Code vinyl edition

Psyché Tropes: Projected Music 5″ locked groove zoetrope vinyl

Ana Ott: Form Foam, zoetrope vinyl 12″ EP

Tapebox / Plastic Infinite:

Zoetrope vinyl 7″ singles, Plastic Infinite and Zyprazol

Graphic novel/cassette, Nearest Neighbour

Visionsonic film/EP, Fanfic Telepresence

7″/zine, Malculus and Photo Synth

Collected animation and video work is here: youtube.com/@SculptureAV

Press images are here: Download high res photos