Another artist from the experimental atelier made a drawing to represent the sound environment of a particular area (unknown to me) and I interpreted it in sound. The result is bellow.
I have since been told that the original space, upon which the auditory sketch was based, was an abandoned building near a power station and near train tracks. Unfortunately I don’t have a scan of the sketch at the moment but hopefully I can update this post later.
I translated the sketch into audio by reading into a microphone my impressions of the drawing. I then took samples of my own voice and altered them digitally until they seemed to me to be close enough to the sounds and sensations I was trying to get at with my verbal descriptions. For example, I took a recording of me saying “four bells, four bells, four bells, four bells” and boosted certain frequencies, limited others, and further manipulated it until it began to sound like four bells. Other instances were less literal.
