This is the work that interested me in week 5 outing in Tate Morden. This work used 16 speaker hung on the ceiling in three rooms with painted scores on the side and orchestral map in the middle of the wall. In the time when I went into the rooms, I can hear the bird songs but I didn’t realise the hanging objects is the speaker which confuses me at first. Also the hunting speaker were playing birds songs which according to the description of the work, it is two thousand birdsongs from all around the world.
The space is quite wide compare to other work in Tate Morden, however, volume of the speaker is rather tiny and also all the speaker is quite low. As a result, audience need to go under the speaker if you want to hear the clear sounds. Also they plays quite separately which recreate the atmosphere of the forest (most of the time can hear the bird from distance but can’t really find them). That is the intention of the work, hear the tiny and forgotten surround us.
If I gonna do this sound sculpture myself, I probably will rearrange the speaker positions rather hanging on the ceiling evenly. The vertical hanging speaker limited the travel of the sounds. Also sonic wise, it can have more variation of the birdsongs rather the dry sounds. For example, add different effect or filter to create different sense of space and distance.