Nicole Robson

Sonographies, (2024, ongoing)
Eight-channel ultrasonic installation

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Concealed in near silence, the sound installation Sonographies explores hidden and intimate spaces of experience. An eight-channel composition sounds physically in the gallery space but above the range of human hearing. Unstable and sensitive to movements of the body, an alternate acoustic landscape is revealed to individual listeners wearing wireless headphones created specially for the work. Sonographies is an invitation to dwell in sound, to probe space with your listening, and to notice how your body meets with sound and space. Drawing on themes of interior and domestic space, miniature and barely audible sounds of the home expand into the gallery space as immersive, sonic landscapes comprising field recordings, instrumental tones, and synthesised layers.

Sonographies has been developed in different iterative versions as part of PhD research examining the experience of listening to spatial sound art. Further details - including technical information - may be found at this research page and within my publications.

Exhibitions
no format Gallery, London. February 2024.
Ramsgate Festival of Sound. September 2021.

Documentation
Recorded from a first-person perspective, headphones recommended.