Songbird

2002-2004. Sonic/acoustic work evolving from a project originated during the LabCulture residency at ArtSway, Oct ’02. Exhibited as an installation within the ‘Re:Thinking Time’ exhibition at Peterborough Digital Arts April-May ‘04. A Shockwave version of the piece as a work-in progress has been exhibited on the PVA website from late May ’03 (www.pva.org.uk/archive/2002/damien/dr.htm).

Songbird is an investigation of the relationships between pitch and speed, and their relationship with vibration. Anthropogenic sound generation can engender loss for native fauna – both of habitat and of airspace unpolluted by human sound – and this is developed as a parallel to the convention that deafness constitutes loss. Six core sounds, each filtered by pitch and time, create a framework of thirty, performing continuously within a random interactive structure.