Ecoacoustic Sound Sculptures

A practice of making-with technology to understand the nature of data, the mediating nature of technology in the context of environmental data recordings, with the result being experiential environmental data.

What are the limits of technology in capturing aircraft noise for comparison to the collective sounds, signals, and calls of frog and cricket ecological communities.

There is a limitation of frequency bandwidths recorded and analysed, and subsequently made experiential, which seem to convey a comparable reality of aircraft sounds to that of small animals.

The animations on this page are, for now, a simple gathering of my design research.

Sound Sculptures as Fabric Objects

Extending the exploration of technological limitations for environmental and Nature data gathering is the idea of feeling, of holding, the weight, the volume of differences according to the data.

The question is what changes within us, if we could feel, in our hands, the weight differences between anthropogenic noise and various ecological communities’ calls and signals.

This animation is a visualisation of what sound, in the forms of plush fabric objects, could look like, could feel like. It is an animation to convey the weight and size differences between a single aircraft passing overhead and the accumulated sounds of a community of Growling Grass frogs and of crickets as they call in their evening chorus.