Soundscape with interviews

Lab environments are functional, objective and sterile. Research can be arduous - no comforts; work of an efficient and stereotyped nature. Experimentalists hear the same sounds every day in the pursuit of reproducible data, sounds that are important but not aesthetic. Pure tones, white noise, clicks and whirrs, beeps and clatters, the lonely sounds of another late night of research. 

Amidst this non-aesthetic environment, how do researchers engage with their work? What encourages them and inspires them? How does an understanding of beauty emerge from an anti-beautiful context? 

This piece features field recordings in the Poulet lab of the MDC Berlin, collaged with interviews of neuroscience researchers from the NWFZ Charite, and met at ENCODS and FENS conferences in 2018.

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