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Friday, 15 May 2009

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 :)