WHISPERS OF THE CITY

In urban landscapes, humans are bombarded with incessant sound. Often described as “noise pollution” its impact on the human psyche is considered negative and unhealthy. After long term exposure, the bombardment is no longer noticed and our senses detune themselves to the noise.

I am interested in the relationship between the human senses and inhabited noise environments. I hear underlying patterns and beautiful overtones in the passage of sound through urban spaces, reflections from the hard surfaces and reverbs of long corridors of a city scape. I take inspiration from the sonic collisions and translate them into music. I want to express the intimate connection between living organisms and the space they inhabit.

Music creates a dialogue between thoughts and experiences. It maps human consciousness, and communicates indescribable aspects of emotion and memory through harmony, rhythm and texture. Music can make everyday events take on extraordinary meaning.

My sound-works aim to incite the cross-pollination of the senses through the emotional landscape it emits and invokes. Meshing electronic and acoustic sound worlds allows me to express the duality of nature and machine. It takes risks, leaves open doors through which the listener can travel and delve into the emotional connection between memory, senses, and the urban landscape.

When I was young, the piano appealed to my ancestral heritage, but I was compelled to rebel again the notions of using an archaic sound world as my only musical instrument. Stimulated by the incessant sound world of urban society, I wired my keyboard into my computer and found a new way to express myself musically. As an adult, the art of machine interface is my daily pursuit. My instrument is my laptop and my music is a dialogue between machine, environment and consciousness.