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 The idea of fiction revealing mans greater truth about life has been replaced by the notion that truth can be found only in what’s already there –even if what is there is never real to begin with”
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' ...
