Monash University, Melbourne CBD

Installation with sound, wood, acrylic, sonic records/sound 122.21 min, 9 structures - 30 cm x 200 cm

During my graduating year at Monash University, I drew on four years of collected recordings and found sound material to create a three-hour composition capturing my own sonic environments alongside more alarming and unfamiliar sounds. The work was shaped by a fascination with the sonic surroundings of everyday life, considering how every environment produces its own notes, rhythms and textures. Over four years, I collected sounds from a diverse range of environments, including cities around the world. I distorted, layered and manipulated these original recordings, altering their tone, pitch and rhythm to transform them into new compositions. Together, these sounds became a kind of ‘forever orchestra’ — an ongoing composition created from the natural world, human activity and the machinery that surrounds us. The work developed into an abstracted cityscape: a lost and unfamiliar space constructed from large, tall black structures. The structures invited the audience to move through the installation, creating an immersive environment in which the boundaries between sound, architecture and space became blurred. Rather than simply listening to the composition, the audience was invited to enter it — becoming immersed in a new experience of listening.

Photography: Artist