Sound endows us with an irreplaceable sense of belonging and connection to our surroundings. Informing us of who we are and informing our evolution as a species, yet over the last 50 years the sounds of the natural world have continually fallen silent in the sprawling wake of human industry and it’s traces.
Audio recordings from hydrophones, geophones, contact microphones and shotgun microphones from an area of ancient Sussex woodland capture sounds familiar and unfamiliar from within the woods. Transferred through water the physical representation of these sounds is captured as a series of still and moving images to create an acoustic fingerprint for each of the soundscapes component parts of this natural orchestration.
Film, 5 mins 59 seconds
Caution: Loud sound and flashing images