Daire Lennon

All We Feel is how it moves

All We Feel Is How It Moves is a live audiovisual performance that explores the movement of the city as a cultural, social, and sonic phenomenon. The work draws on real-time public data, live video feeds, and field recordings captured across Dublin, using these materials to shape a sound-led performance that responds to the city as it exists at the moment of presentation.

At the centre of the work is sound. Field recordings of everyday urban activity — transport systems, voices, alarms, environmental noise, and incidental movement — are abstracted into rhythms, drones, and textures. These materials are composed into a structured performance framework, while live data introduces variation, chance, and responsiveness, ensuring that each performance is shaped by current conditions rather than fixed outcomes.

Visual elements are generated from live and captured video sources around the city and processed in real time. These visuals operate as an evolving texture, reinforcing themes of movement and change without relying on narrative or representation.

The performance is presented as a focused, time-based experience, shaped through live decision-making by the performers. By combining composed structure with live systems, All We Feel Is How It Moves creates a site-responsive work that reflects the dynamic nature of urban life and invites audiences to experience the city through sound, image, and movement rather than description or explanation.