stadium

a collection of recordings captured from Sadang, Seoul, South Korea

Sadang

Puffing Billy #1

Ventilation system, Ponsford Stand, MCG

Distant football crowd cheering and nearby traffic captured and warped through Iron fence down by the Yarra river

 

Iron fence separating Batman Avenue from the banks of the Yarra river

Recording of football crowd from inside a stadium elevator 

stadium elevator

A small taste of my recent COURTYARDS album, released on Herbal international

http://herbalinternational.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/1601-martin-kay-courtyards.html 

Courtyards

Solid Vibration recording of the Tomei Express Bridge that crosses the Tomei River – linking Tokyo to Kanagawa, Japan

01 Tomei Bridge

Solid vibration recording of cars passing over and beneath a bridge in seoul south, Korea




Nambu expressway bridge, Sadang

unprocessed recording of commuters making their way in and out of Sadang station, exit 4.

Right channel - electromagnetic recording of escalator sensor. 
Left channel - solid vibration recording of metal flooring. 

Sadang Station Escalator

Recording of my wife and myself talking on my grandmother in law's rooftop through two Kimchi pots. Sadang, Seoul, South Korea

Kimchi Pots, Sadang.

Beneath Masjid Al - Bukhary

A sound recording captured from the inside of Clay Sauna

Dry Clay Sauna – Goyang province, South Korea

Two microphones placed inside a Seal Wall In Joedong, Uellungdo Island

Sea Wall, Uellungdo Island, South Korea

Ulleungdo aqueduct

A recording of myself observing silence from the inside of Heesun'e childhood room in Sadang, a residential suburb of Seoul, South Korea .
A special room with a special acoustic to contain and resonate the thoughts and emotions of a young girl.

The 1st section was captured using 2 x mics suspended in the middle of the room. 

The second section from the inside of two ceramic pots placed in the room. 

low-volume playback recommended

Heesun's old bedroom

DESCEND comprises of an array of sound recordings captured from the inside of Junction Dam during a severe storm on the 19/02/2011. Consisting of five selected and patched together segments, this work seeks to provide a condensed overview of the changes of sonic activity that occurred over a one hour period. The composition incorporates recordings of Lake Guy gushing into the dam and rushing into its spillway to interrogate the acoustics of the structure. As the water level increases, the resonant frequency of the space decreases to the point of producing great modulations of subsonic activity.

Part of the Sonic Interventions Compilation 
released through The Bogong Centre For Sound Culture Bogong, Victoria. 
B-CSC 02

Descend

2x omnidirectional microphones recording a group of around 20-30 people who have been asked to observe a period of relative silence.

Group Silence at Twenty Alpha, Hong Kong, 2019

A playback performance of various amplified recorded acoustic perspectives (inside resonant chambers, through windowpanes and ambient room recordings) of an audience observing relative group silence.

Performed Playback diffusion of Group Silence, Twenty Alpha, Hong Kong, 2019

Kegon Falls (air)

A recording of the Dotolimpic audience performing 10 minutes of silence

Dotolimpic 'Silence'

I am a sound recordist/artist/designer currently producing audio-montages and compositions that explore the intersection of architecture, psychoacoustics, social-dynamics and place. My works are constructed primarily from un-mixed and un-edited environmental sound recordings, which I capture using a mixture of straight, extended and oblique recording techniques – probing the various unheard material realities, angles and perspectives of a given sound event, as well as providing a tactile space that has surface, texture and reflection, whereby the listener is sensitised to hearing as if it were touch. Through employing a technologically limited (recording focused) work methodology, I am driven to find inventive recording techniques that re-contextualise my surroundings as well as inspire fresh and idiosyncratic compositional approaches pertinent to the places, situations and events I encounter.
 

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