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Untitled (traffic), 2014
4 channel sound
Dimensions variable
Installed at Audio Foundation, Auckland

Untitled (traffic) was a multi-channel sound-sculpture in which speeding cars cut through a gallery as if, suddenly, it had been transported to the middle of a busy intersection. It was presented at Audio Foundation as part of a series seeking to both problematise and celebrate the processes and products of audio-recording.¹
In an adjacent room, a run of custom lathe-cut records degrade as they revolve; the needle which gives voice to the sounds wearing away the grooves cut into the acetate disks, steadily lowering the fidelity, and with it the potential for further use, ensuring that each encounter with the work was specific to the time when it took place.

By presenting viewers with the affective and psycho-geographically significant sounds of traffic, Untitled (traffic), and the other works in the exhibition, sought to highlight the perceptual and conceptual gap between a sonic-event-recorded and the sonic-event as it might have existed originally, which is to say in a fleeting and spatiotemporally specific form.