The piece attempts to catch the viewers’ attention through the visual materiality of QR codes, which work as a key to the sounds ephemeral invisibility. The viewers are encouraged to take away the codes and disperse them into everyday environments. These sounds then travel along with the viewers into everyday environments. Scanning these codes leads us to the sounds belonging to different cities. Although the medium is sonorous, the access to the audio files essentially passes through the visual. Sounds slice through the visual frame to propose other temporary, invisible and ephemeral re-framings that demand our participation. These recordings are worlds of mobile invisibility, timespace worlds created continually and contingently from the plurality of time and space, producing the landscape as temporal environments that we inhabit. The recordings offer an alternative perspective on the landscape and how consequently we could validate the reality of sound’s invisible formlessness in relation to the visible and formed actuality of the world.

 

 

 

Listening enables us to focus on the invisible dynamics that are hidden beneath visual perception and its linguistic organization. The soundscape treats the acoustic environment as both the subject and the content of a composition, vacillating ambiguously on the border between representation and abstraction.  The listener listens to and produces the possibility of the landscape from the possibility of time and space, hinting at the plurality of reality and challenging the singular actuality it is presented as. Periodically there are sections of the piece that move towards abstract sounds, albeit originating in environmental sources, but every time, we are eventually placed back in a recognizable environmental context. The recordings urge us to think of culture as invisible agency, as the simultaneous and unseen mobility of sound: actions and encounters rather than artifacts, outcomes and visible relationships. The recordings evoke feelings, experiences and memories calling upon the listener to create a personal narrative, in a manner that words and images cannot.