Soundscapes provide us with an irreplaceable sense of belonging and connection to our environment and to each other yet, over the last 50 years, the natural world has become progressively quieter as human activity continues to encroach on natural territories.
The audible world consists of three families of sound: the Geophony where all sounds from a non biological origin are found such as the tectonics beneath our feet; the Biophony filled with the sounds of the biological world including birds, plants and bacteria and the Anthrophony consisting solely of the sounds of human activity.
The following film is composed of a series of sound recordings taken from within an area of woodland where I grew up capturing the otherwise silent world of the soil and plants combined with bird song all of which become gradually engulfed by the sound of a passing aircraft.
The visual imagery has been achieved as a result of playing the tones found in the field sound recordings through water, a method known as Cymatics, to filming the resultant patterns created in the waters surface.