Tree Performance

2009
Outdoor Audio Intervention

“Nobody seems to require anything to be real in its totality. It’s almost as if unadulterated realness has become an unrealistic expectation. However partial realness –reality in the right context – has become central to the success of just about everything that falls into the category of consumer art. The idea of fiction revealing mans greater truth about life has been replaced by the notion that truth can be found only in what’s already there –even if what is there is never real to begin with” 

Chuck Klosterman

Two tree mounted Megaphones played out an audio track of exotic bird call to passers by.

While the bird song was from non native British birds, the soundscape blended with the local sonic environment. This resulted in the sound passing as 'real' for many who encountered it and thus many could not hear it.

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EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES
Tree Performance

Deal Pier Sounds
Folkestone Fringe, Deal Festival of Music and Arts, 2009

The Folkestone Fringe was commissioned by the deal music festival to produce sound and visual work that responded to deal pier, one of the last remaining piers in Kent. A sound palette was captured by students from Walmer tech in deal, and sound artists were invited to interpret the acoustics sounds of this modernist concrete pier. The deal pier sound 09 cd was produced of the work which is available to listen to here:
www.folkestonefringe.com/2009/deal_pier_sound.html