After

The installation goes up tomorrow. In the end it will be something quite close to what I'd originally imagined. It is a transposition, a re-location. Brandon Labelle writes:

"The time of listening is the time of attention, the time for place to come to the fore, as virtual presence, inside the listener's ear. It is also the time for space to become alien, dislocated, foreign, so as to become present, renewed, alive" (Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art, Continuum, 2007)

The aural fragments that I have collected on either side of the wall will be reanimated in another space. The listener's physical immediate will be cohabited by its removed reality, the projected soundscape of these often forgotten streets on the other side of town. To wander through the space of the installation will allow free movement through this foreign world, and the immersion in its presence will slowly grow into a sense of communion, of the fundamentally porous and fleeting nature of sound and of ourselves as beings in a sounding world.

That having been said, the result remains to be heard.

SOUNDINGS: Through the Wall (A short crossfade between two simultaneous recordings made from either side of the wall - Thanks to Florian Hollerwegger)