Soundscape Relocation: An Investigation into the successful
recontextualisation of multiple natural soundscapes within an urbanized
context in real-time.
The composition is centred on soundscape re-contextualisation, with regard to
core themes of space, time, and the boundaries. Inspired by the Morris Box
with the Sound of its Own Making (1961), R. Murray Schaffers World Soundscape Project(1971),
and Duchamps idea of the found object, it is the belief of the author that by relocating and
re-contextualizing the perception of soundscape through a technological medium, the listener
can re-forge the human/nature connection; allowing the engaged individual to positively employ
personal perceptual sensitivities and renegotiate the acoustic qualities within their own sonic
environment. Drawing from a solid body of human anthropology and evidence identifying the
delicate human/nature relationship and building on the collective works and installations
of the academe, the objective of the works is to develop a series of multi-dimensional
compositions that enhances ones listening sensitivity, while at the same time, revealing
the density, beauty, and phenomena of the natural soundscape. By rejecting the modern
nature verses civilization paradigm, the compositions actually fuses opposing bodies
into a singular entity; nature and modern technology are interwoven, existing simultaneously
in varied dimensions of space and time.