Colin Black’s Butter Churn Sound Sculpture installation was launched on Friday 27th July 2007 .  The Butter Churn Sound Sculpture is part of the two new "Story Sites" which extend the "Wilsons River Experience Walk" in Lismore's Heritage Park.

The Butter Churn spatial sound sculpture installation aims to sonically animate and resonate the NORCO Butter Churn sculpture with local oral histories, sound art and electroacoustic composition.

The work explores the idea that the butter churn is a metaphor for the evolution of the local colonised rural culture of Lismore.  Just like the fluidity of the cream it churned into butter, this churn helped to changed the uncertain liquidity of the Lismore economy into a stable community.

As all enclosures inherently have predominantly resonating frequencies, Colin Black with assisting artist Yanna Black explore the butter churn's latent sonorities with the creation of the sound installation’s "I Am Sitting In The Lismore butter churn" movement.  Combining Alvin Lucier like recordings techniques with spatialised electroacoustic composition that pays homage to early electronic music, the work rings out the object's dimensions within its landscape and sonically impacts on the culture that it has helped to shape in the past.  The idea is to give this object a voice after years of silence and inactivity, opening up the dialogue between the the past and the present while investigating how this object continues to influence the evolution of the local culture of Lismore.

Visitors to the site will be able to activate the Butter Churn Sound Sculpture installation between the hours of  9am to 9pm.

For more info see Northern Rivers Echo & Lismore Council Website

Special thanks to Lismore City Council