Now I am shifting the idea of human sounds with nature toward the sound of making. Most of the activities in wild camping are manual labour. We bring a lot of tools and resources, such as saw, axe, tents and fire starting tool, but all of them are just helping us to finish all tasks that require our labour. There aren’t any machines to help us, which can see those as our authentic way of living. Since wild camping listening workshop has some practical and ethical issues, I am trying to focus on the sound of human.
One of the fundamental reason why human are difference from other creature is using tools. We make our own tools as we evolve, and making technique and styles change overtime. Making becomes the essential in every culture and society, and it requires specialty. Hand-making becomes more and more rare after industrialisation, more and more making or tasks are replaced by machinery. While hand-making stuffs, the maker are extremely concentrate the present, they step by step carefully making toward the final product. I am thinking to capture this concentrated zone and time by recording the sound of making, and use them as the material for performance, which is another form of being present and making things.