A series of projects for the City Learning Centre in Lambeth, based at the BFI. These projects include a sound installation for the Young Vic special schools theatre festival, a series of sound art projects in primary schools exploring notions of time, place and sound and a sound installation for the new CLC Building in Clapham. Sounding It Out Primary Schools project some of the initial ideas
Starting points: (conceptual)
Acoustic Ecology: Acoustic ecology (sometimes called soundscape ecology), is the relationship, mediated through sound, between living beings and their environment.
Audio-geography: The mapping of sounds onto locations
Anamnesis: an effect of reminiscence in which a past situation or atmosphere is brought back to the listeners consciousness, provoked by a particular signal or sonic context.
In the project we will be making work that explores the soundscape of where we are in Lambeth. We will think about how that has changed over time and project some sounds forward in time into the future. The final piece we will be making will form the basis of an interactive installation that will be placed in the new CLC building in Clapham.
Some questions that we can address during the process.
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What are the unique sounds of your school / locality ?
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What were they in the past ?
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What do imagine they will be in 100 years time ?
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What sounds would you like to preserve for the future and how can we preserve them in a way that the people in the future will be able to hear them ?
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Can we picture sounds in ways that other people will be able to “see” how they sound ?
Some of the work , all of these are in the form of Past/Present/Future sequences and this material will be used in the final installed piece in the new building.
Here are some of the pieces