A collage audio situated in Finsbury Park integrating site recordings and electric guitar. The piece is an experiential representation of a walk my dog and I took to and from Finsbury Park Station.

Hannah Both - Finsbury Park Walk

The King Abdulaziz Historical House has published a rare audio clip of the first royal speech by King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman broadcasted on the first Saudi radio station, and that was seventy years ago in 1949.

The speech delivered by King Faisal on behalf of his father, King Abdulaziz, was broadcast, which included a welcome to the pilgrims who came to the holy sites, and his wishes for an accepted pilgrimage and a forgiven sin.

The concept initially was to mimic the first draft of the broadcast which was the written format in 1949 and find variations. By doing so, the listener would imagine the writer as he is drafting the speech.

The sound in the background is the original speech which has been stretched to sit in the window of the speed of writing the speech, and it represents the thought of the king’s speech as it travels from his mind through his hands.

Ziyad Alroqi - King's Speech 1949

By translating the desert sounds, we create a medium of communication for landscapes. As this project is located between two points that emphasize the cultural entities they belong to, it communicates to all people that take part in shaping one's culture, but most importantly it is for all the people that belong to these cultures.

Sound is one of the many ways we as humans use to communicate, and for that sound to travel, it might take less than a second or up to a million years. However, for cultures to travel or exist outside their boundary is relatively hard. But using sound as the medium of cultural extension from Dhanna to Dungeness and vice versa is another way of breaking boundaries and reaching the world.

MASP 22-23 UCL