Barely Audible Frequencies no. 4 - 8 (wall), 2013

6'' speaker cones, infrasound, audio-equipment

Dimensions variable,

Installed at SITE 2013, DSA, Dunedin

Barely Audible Frequencies no. 4 - 8 (wall), 2013

6'' speaker cones, infrasound, audio-equipment

Dimensions variable,

Installed at SITE 2013, DSA, Dunedin

Barely Audible Frequencies no. 4 - 8 (wall), 2013
6'' speaker cones, infrasound, audio-equipment
Dimensions variable,
Installed at SITE 2013, DSA, Dunedin

A two channel composition using infrasonic frequencies (sounds below 20Hz, i.e., the bottom threshold of aural sensitivity in humans) derived from atmospheric noise for five 6'' speaker cones.

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This work problematised notions of silence. It could be said to have been silent, however, upon straining to listen, the viewer/listener inevitably experienced the ambient sound perceivable from in front of it; the act of listening to the work, which through the violent oscillations of the speakers was visually suggestive high levels of volume, was experientially the act of listing to the surrounding soundscape.