Mixed feelings is an installation conceived for the storage and access of information, in music, sound, and affect. Detailed structural and formal protocols compile a sprawling corpus of voices and music, composed and sampled from pop culture, avant-gardes, marginalised or politicised communities, operating since 2018 as a slow-moving field recording of the internet. Diffused over a sound system comprising cardboard-box loudspeakers, light sources, and their infrastructure, Mixed feelings mobilises shifting modes of attention to interrogate the act of listening, and relating, to information we hear.
Charlie Usher is a composer living in Brussels, working with composed sound, heart-on-sleeve cultural samples, installations of rotary and handmade speakers and live instruments; in museum, gallery and concert hall contexts. His solo and collaborative work has been installed and performed over Europe and North America. A double CD edition of his recent collaboration with Slow Reading Club was released by Ediçoes CN in 2025. Since 2022 he co-runs the project space Winona with Sabrina Seifried and Henry Andersen.
