Storm

'Storm' audio project is an exploratory step into ideas of local and assumed soundscapes, thinking of the social and psychological implications of sound and the potential for interrupting and altering these within the everyday.


Five months of weather storms, rain, hail, wind and thunder were captured in audio and assembled as one conclusive storm lasting 30 minutes.
The storm sounds were broadcast on two radio stations in Kent, filling homes and offices with the storm sounds as they leaked unexpectedly out of their radios altering their daily soundscapes.

Storm was also exhibited as an interactive audio performance at Whitstable Biennale where small domestic transmitters allowed the sounds to take on a sculptural aspect -inhabiting specific spaces.The video documention (put together when working recently at UCA) shows visitors taking radios and headphones from the central concrete area, as they moved off and onto the grass their radios began to pick up the storm broadcast, they walked into a new and evolving physical soundscape,of raging winds and electrical rain delivered through the airwaves and the headphones.



wear headphones :)

Tree Performance

A work in progress - An Audio Performance / unannounced intervention for outdoor spaces



Speakers will be appearing in trees -posing as birds- imitating the calls of local and exotic wildlife. The additional soundscapes hope to physically affect the behavior of the passing bird life with the calls and deterrents voiced through the bird recordings, while enriching and bringing into question the sense of place for passing people with a touch of the absurd.

“Nobody seems to require anything to be real in its totality. It’s almost as if unadulterated realness has become an unrealistic expectation. However partial realness –reality in the right context – has become central to the success of just about everything that falls into the category of consumer art. The idea of fiction revealing mans greater truth about life has been replaced by the notion that truth can be found only in what’s already there –even if what is there is never real to begin with”

-Chuck Klosterman

Exhibited:

Tree performance was installed at the Deal Sound Pier festival in July 2009

The folkestone fringe was commissioned by the Deal music festival to produce audio and visual works that responded to Deal pier and town. For the event I installed the off site audio intervention outside one of the Music Festival Venues. The speakers were placed in a tree within St Georges Church ground, on Deal High street. The bird sounds playing intermittently were of tropical parrots /Parakeets which blended with the native bird calls.

Folkestone Fringe also produced a CD of all the sound works for the event.

Research...
Continued conversation with RSPCB about the use of audio calls.... lots of interesting things are being dug up -indicating the power that recorded sound has in certain contexts, and the fact that this is taken seriously i.e there are even laws in place to control the use of it (within a wild life context).

Audio Controll: Used to deter wild life from areas such as airports, roads and buildings, which leads us to ask: When is the effect of sound on humans considered 'controll' ...

[a little idea to be made]

Faux Reality (tree performance) continued....


Small music boxes with the metal prongs replaced with birds feet... and the feet tuned to play bird song. To be placed in trees and played at random by passers by...

Work in progress for the Art Car Boot Fair...

Musical Braille: Translating musical scores into braille scores; embossing them onto 15inch square prints; for the car boot - Wurlitzer sheet music.

Display....
Thinking about finding some curved juke box lighting... but where