Site and Sound: Sonic art as ecological practice

This Melbourne exhibition was designed as an immersive experience in which the audience could inhabit sound recordings of landscapes from around the world. The complex speaker system was housed in a ‘forest’ of sculptural elements that were arranged to offer dynamic spatial compositions as the visitor moved through the sonic field. The project’s scope included a very modest budget, and short window of time for construction. Flexibility was required for this design, as the sonic artworks for the exhibition were in multiple audio formats and the final speaker locations needed to be resolved in the space, which wasn’t accessible for the six months prior to exhibition.