Gail Priest: Here Now Hear
714/37 Swanston St, Melbourne CBD, Victoria
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Using sounds gathered from the surrounding city streets and the building itself, the installation offers sonic and visual representations of site and moment through soundscapes and wall pieces based on the audio tool of spectral analysis.
'Here Now Hear' can be understood as both statement and invitation. It references the way in which listening allows us to connect with our presentness and our position in space and place. This is an essential effect of sound and listening but one that can get lost in loud city environments where we increasingly seek escape through external “curated” soundtracks.
As a sound artist I have often struggled with how to present visual anchors for the audience in a way that is essentially drawn from the sound itself. This has manifested in a range of process in which I manipulated the graphic representations of sounds as they appear in my digital audio tools.
Opening event: Thursday 12 October, 6–8pm
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