Do You Hear What I Hear?

Sound installation

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A mysterious Aeolian sound emanates from the TONSPUR passageway, its tonal range shifting gradually over time. The audio was collected in an experiment: a search for musical tones in the sound of a road, inspired by Helmholtz's act of listening to "the rumbling of carriage wheels" through his resonators (1954, 44). I positioned eight differently tuned Listening Glasses by the side of a road, placed a small microphone inside each one and made eight simultaneous recordings. The differently tuned streams of audio were played through the eight speakers in the TONSPUR passageway, and the diffusion varied continuously throughout the duration of the exhibition (23rd August to the 27th November 2010).

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