Sione Faletau

Winds (2021)

Single channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

Faletau has captured present day ongo (sounds) from Manukau Heads lighthouse and Whatipu beach. Utilising the frequencies of sound extracted from the recording gives Faletau material to create kupesi (Tongan patterns).

—Artist's statement

    Other works by Sione Faletau

    Red lines make a linear pattern of arrows on a black background.
    Sione Faletau

    Waitemata Harbour sounds (2021)

    An audio recording of Waitemata Harbour is used to generate visual kupesi (Tongan patterns).

    Waitemata Harbour sounds
    A black and white pattern made from short lines fills the frame.
    Sione Faletau

    Tuaikaepau—Slowly but surely (2020)

    A song commemorating survivors of the 1962 Tuaikaepau shipwreck is rendered visually as a vivid kupesi (Tongan patterns).

    Tuaikaepau—Slowly but surely
    A grid like pattern in orange and pink fills the screen.
    Sione Faletau

    Tonga Monuu—Blessed Tonga (2021)

    Visual kupesi (Tongan patterns) are created and move in response to a Tongan choir.

    Tonga Monuu—Blessed Tonga
    A grey and black linear pattern fills the frame.
    Sione Faletau

    City scape sounds (2021)

    Recorded sound from Auckland's CBD is transformed into kupesi (pattern).

    City scape sounds
    Sione Faletau on CIRCUIT

    Related podcast

    Morphing yellow and golden kupesi patterns

    Sione Faletau

    CIRCUIT Cast #105
    Hosted by Robbie Handcock · April 24, 2022

    Sound is not static, it moves in waves and into the flickering, morphing kupesi patterns of Sione Faletau's work.

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