Here Now Hear

Here Now Hear explores the way in which sound positions us in place and presentness. Using sounds gathered from the surrounding city streets and the building itself, the installation offers sonic and visual representations of site and moment through soundscapes and wall pieces based on the audio tool of spectral analysis.

The title Here Now Hear can be understood as both statement and invitation. It references the way in which listening allows us to connect with our presentness and our position in space and place. This is an essential effect of sound and listening but one that can get lost in loud city environments where we increasingly seek escape through external “curated” soundtracks.

This project continues an exploration begun at Our Neon Foe on Sydney’s arterial Parramatta Road. As a sound artist I have often struggled with how to present visual anchors for the audience in a way that is essentially drawn from the sound itself. This has manifested in a range of process in which I manipulated the graphic representations of sounds as they appear in my digital audio tools. For Here Now Hear I am intrigued by the visual imagery created by spectral analysis, in which the intensity of frequencies are mapped moment by moment. For Blindside I will create soundscapes based on recordings from the area and use moments from these to generate visual artworks.