The city is overloaded with a disorientating and disparate soundscape that provides urban city dwellers with a weak auditory experience. Inner City Listening creates a sonic environment in which air vents and other sound objects emit their inner voice, abstracting the cacophony of sounds emitted by the city’s components. This project conceptualizes the array of city sounds as the voice of the city. The ubiquitous instruments of the built environment heard throughout Wellington’s alleyways create a homogenized voice. Urban city dwellers are subject to a one-way listening experience; an unchanging monologue of sound objects. Inner City Listening recomposes the city soundscape, voices emerge from electroacoustic sound objects, creating a transformational and perpetually changing dialogue between the voice of the city and it’s human inhabitants.
Inner City Listening acts as an online repository/ website, a process for myself as an artist or others to apply + a series of spatial acoustic interventions.
Interpreting, presenting and enhancing acoustic landscapes and environments throughout the city.
Link to full thesis - https://drive.google.com/file/d/15hl2IbQmPCsmSQ2MCYztm6Cg7ycGS6hP/view?usp=sharing
See full detailing for this installation ^ in my thesis