Recording Adventures Day 2

On Day 2 Anneke and I returned to North Head to perform some further experimentation with using the decaying structures to produce sound.

What really drew me back to the tunnels was the eerie sounds that we got off the first day's recordings and the amount of natural resources that were there that could be used in the production of sound.

Creating Sound at North Head Tunnels

As I have progressed with this week's assignment I have become more interested in the production of sound rather than recording sounds at random. Initially we were trying to see what sounds we could observe without our own interference but now I'm looking as it more as each area is a type of instrument that has the ability to make sound but it requires a catalyst (ie. us) to bring out its potential. I find this quite a valid way to tackle the assignment and think that as our interaction level has increased with the production of sound so has our creativity and our engagement with the assignment.

I think the hardest part will be to refine the amount of audio we have recorded and chose just the key sounds to compose our pieces out of.


As shown on the map on the left we recorded at many locations over the 2 days that we went out. In hindsight we probably could have condensed the areas that we chose and got a similar results but we did enjoy the process and learned a lot over the course of the week.

Sound Recordings Map

For a quick run down:

At the pink location I recorded the beach from within a cave.

At the orange we recorded domestic sounds inside a home.

At the red location we recorded traffic on the harbour bridge.

On the purple we recorded inside the ruins at North Head.

And finally at the yellow we recorded inside a central city carpark.