Silent conversations is a personal exploration of home and the ways in which its ever changing audible landscape has informed my understanding and perception of what it means to be connected with nature.
Using a selection of specialist microphones (hydrophones for listening underwater, contact microphones for surface vibrations and ecoutic microphones for listening below the surface) this film explores the intimate and naturally obscured sounds of geological activity beneath our feet before transitioning into the open filled with the vibrancy of bird song before closing under the all consuming roar of the flight path overhead.
Project Details:
RUN TIME - 5 mins 59 seconds
CAUTION - Loud audio and flashing imagery
In this semi fictional landscape the sounds recordings I captured have been animated using Cymatics, a process allowing sound to be observed with the naked eye, to create this altogether other space where sound can be seen and time heard. In making this project I wanted to open up the possibility to look again at the influences of sound in shaping our lives whilst acknowledging our vulnerability within and deep dependency upon this fragile coastal area.
Constructed of 95 identical cardboard boxes the cardboard structure housing the film is constructed to act as a resonant chamber. Providing an acoustically deadened space for listening and to acting as a vessel for the sound to resonate throughout.
ILENT CONVERSATIONS, 2025
Arranged in an asymmetrical checkerboard pattern of semi-closed apertures the boxes have been used as both a structural and expressive feature that not only helped to stabilise the structure but alse reduce the visual footprint of the structure whilst meeting the criteria of using readily available, cost effective and fully recyclable materials.
With the temporary nature of this project the structure was also designed with a simple deconstruction built in that maximised the amount of materials that can be recycled after the de-installation the work with all of the component parts having been repurposed and reused by fellow students.