The Work:

Take a Deep Breath ~ Breathless, is a new work commissioned by the Sound Reasons, Sonic Cities Festival due to take place in Delhi, India under auspices of the SARAI new media foundation. Take a Deep Breath ~ Breathless, is a development of my current research into the sonification of environmental data and the installation of the resulting sound works into public or architectural space. Conceptually the work is similar to VoxAura in that it is structured in two parts, one originating in a social and cultural context, the other ecological and environmental ~ the aim of the work being to integrate and interrogate the relationship between these spheres, and present them in an outdoor urban environment.

Concept:

Take a Deep Breath ~ Breathless, concerns the atmosphere, the breath and the act of breathing. Breathing as meditation, as respiration, failing breath in respiratory diseases, the breathy sounds of our voices, of song and flute ~ the metaphor of breath as life itself. Hence the audio library which I shall establish in my one month working visit to Delhi will embrace and record a wide range of ambient, vocal, environmental and musical sounds, establishing what I term as an AudioPortrait of the environment.