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 is the culmination of a creative residency at no format gallery in January 2024 and is site-specific, incorporating the acoustic and architectural features of the space. The installation has been developed in different iterative versions as part of PhD research examining the experience of listening to spatial sound art.

Sonographies is created by Nicole Robson with curatorial support from Eva Martinez and is supervised by Prof. Andrew McPherson and Prof. Nick Bryan-Kinns. The work is supported by the EPSRC grant EP/L01632X/1 (Centre for Doctoral Training in Media and Arts Technology at Queen Mary University of London) and by the Royal Academy of Engineering under the Research Chairs and Senior Research Fellowships scheme.

Exhibition
2-4 & 9-11 February, 2024
no format Gallery, London, SE14 6BN