Past Residents
2021-2024

For sixteen days in May 2023, Leander Knust and A.P. Bergeron resided within the Orient Point Lighthouse for their second site-specific residency outing as Bang Klang. This context of isolation and deprivation at the confluence of Plum Gut’s intense currents fostered an incredibly productive and meaningful time of practice, refinement, and raw creation for the Bang Klang project. Over eighty hours of recorded audio and video materials were captured during their time at Orient Point. These exploratory recording sessions took place within and throughout each floor of the lighthouse, employing the structure’s unique cast iron acoustics and the natural soundscapes of the location to create a distinct sound world of strange reverberations and serendipitous collaborations with the sea, the wind, and the wildlife of the area. During this residency the duo were able to greatly expand their arsenal of instruments and recording approaches. Guitars, synthesizers, an accordion, and a plethora of Leander’s own handcrafted creations, including a sympathetic-stringed cello/banjo hybrid that Knust completed during the residency at Orient Point, were captured and projected using various microphones,speakers, and the spiraling metallic floors of the lighthouse structure itself to exponentially increase the duo’s variability in sound. Directly following their stay in the lighthouse, Knust and Bergeron presented a series of public performances in New York City, providing an essential outlet to demonstrate the work they had been creating at Orient Point.