2025
OBSERVATORY STATION, FEEL THE SOUND
Field Recording
Stereo audio, 10:46 minutes
Recorded by Ojasvani Dahiya
Exhibition:
“Observatory Station”, Feel The Sound, Barbican Center, London, UK
“Observatory Station is a global collaborative project that reflects on the relationship between sound and place, between reality and imagination – using sound to collect snapshots of places and times all over the world as part of a unique new sound installation”.
This piece is an evolving archive of field recordings that explores how sound connects people, places, and time. Each sound used in the work includes metadata such as the location and recorded time, which are essential to how the piece invites listeners to imagine the world through listening.
[The] recording is a part of a system that spatially maps and plays sounds from around the globe through a twelve-channel speaker setup. It appears alongside other sounds contributed by artists and recordists from all over the world.
This work will continue to grow and change. Over the next five years, it will travel internationally as part of a world tour. At each location, new recordings will be added — but this sound will always remain part of the original core of the piece [as a form of sonic archive].
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