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Installation: 25 Feb 2004 -- Wed - Sat: 11:00 - 16:00; Sun: 14:30 - 16:30 (25 Feb - 21 Mar 2004)
Presented by: RobertJarvis
Public: Free
Robert Phillips Gallery Riverhouse Manor Road
Walton on Thames, Surrey, KT12 2NZ -- UK
http://www.robertjarvis.co.uk

Our surroundings are changing fast. It's easy to see: from never-ending roadworks to the rise of the megastore. But the story does not end there... Our soundscape is changing as well. As traffic noise increases, peace and quiet is quickly becoming a thing of the past. From the clanking of milk bottles to the whirring of old cash registers, sounds are disappearing...

Robert Jarvis' new work takes the form of a surround surround installation utilising what the artist is calling 'endangered sounds'. It is fundamentally concerned with a reconsideration of how we relate to our changing sonic environment. The work was created using Kyma and makes use of granulation, filtering and lots of spatialisation.

Discussion (Eyewitness reports, descriptions, discussion):

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• Visitors to the installation walk over this carpet of over 200 endangered sounds and are immersed in a 4.1 sound composition utilising 40 of the sounds, travelling round and through the listener: