Swan Reeds

On the other end of the podcast, a lawyer talks about false memory and the impact on eye witness testimonies. I am taking my running route around the Berringa Park wetlands. I am skipping over stray pieces of bitumen on a piece of path that is being reworked. My headphones fall out of my ears, and I stop and reach for them. I come back to this space more regularly since learning the names of the frogs and cicadas. Since learning how my interactions with these spaces I move through change the environment; transiently, and sometimes permanently.

Swan Reeds utilises interactive spatialisation processes (amplitude-panning and mobile playback) and electro-acoustic mimicry to query the relationship between abstraction and notional sound. Built around a single "intentionally disturbed" recording, the work questions how we tend to champion field recordings that reflect the platonic idea of nature as an untouched thing, unsullied by human misdeeds.