Sustrans commissions soundscape art for travelling landscape
Last updated 15/10/2008 12:53:28
The Auditory, a sound observatory. © Liminal
'Tranquillity is a State of Mind' is the first project to be commissioned by sustainable transport charity Sustrans for its new artwork programme entitled 'Prospectives'.
The artwork will explore acoustic ecology and its relationship with travelling landscape.
The project will be developed by Liminal – an artistic partnership of architect Frances Crow and sound artist David Prior - bringing together a team of specialists in audiology, neuroscience and acoustics to consider how they contribute to understanding sound from radically different perspectives.
Crow explained the background, "As a society we have been gradually devaluing our ability to listen in preference to seeing, but we are fascinated by the relationship between sound and the environment.
"When people suffer from hearing loss they can benefit from a range of therapies and devices - we will use the idea of the listening aid as a central metaphor to investigate notions of noise, tranquillity, health and wellbeing in relation to the perception of sound in the environment."