Name: Houseplay by Violet Frances Cato
Duration: 3 min 8 s
Description: I hauled the carpet over the railing and beat it like it owed me something—dust flying off in filthy bursts, catching in the light like grit in a wound.

This is a stereo excerpt of my multichannel installation "Zijlijn / Linea Lateralis". The installation is an exploration of the underwater soundscape of the North Sea. For this piece I recorded at the southern (mainly coast of Belgium) and northern (coast around Bergen in Norway) borders of the North Sea. 

The North Sea is the busiest and therefore loudest sea in the world. The installation researches the difficult relationship between biological sounds and man made noise. 

"Zijlijn / Linea Lateralis" was awarded an honourable mention by the 2021 Sound Of the Year Awards in the "Composed with Sound" category. 

More information about the piece can be found here:
http://stijndemeulenaere.be/zijlijn.html

Zijlijn stereo Excerpt

I hauled the carpet over the railing and beat it like it owed me something—dust flying off in filthy bursts, catching in the light like grit in a wound.

Houseplay

Nocturnal Insights uses recordings of crepuscular and nocturnal wildlife across locations in Hertfordshire, Birmingham and Dorset in order to document habits and patterns in the behaviour of nocturnal wildlife in the UK and to capture sounds that are usually unheard throughout the night. Through an artistic representation of the recorded sounds, the piece takes the listener on a journey through soundscapes of the night organised according to the time at which they were recorded. It evokes a sense of darkness, loneliness and at times, a melancholic state, reflecting the effects of extinction, light pollution and the man-made world on the natural environment and ecosystem. Be transported to a sonic world of Daubenton, Pipistrelle and rare Greater Horseshoe bats using echolocation to hunt at dusk and into the night, sika deer calling out into a vast landscape in complete darkness and the rhythmic behaviour of crickets and tawny owls.

Commissioned for Land Lines at The University of Leeds.

Houseplay

Violet Frances Cato

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