Unheard – 17279

17279 is a telegraph pole located on a hilltop in the middle of the English countryside. I chose a small area of land around this pole to collect as many inaudible sounds as possible to then create a sonic atmosphere of what we don’t hear when in this environment. The sounds recorded are going on when we pass through this area – however, we don’t hear them without the use of specialist microphones.

I have created a gallery installation project that features a gently moving image of 17279 in its bucolic surroundings, projected onto the gallery wall to accompany the soundscape being played within the space.

The soundscape is generated in Max MSP. I built a patch that fades the different sounds in and out randomly, I felt this would accurately portray the nature of this environment.