bury your love like treasure - listening to the earth

I am just beginning to work in earnest on the technical aspects of my project ...bury your love like treasure... with Exeter Contemporary Sounds and will be down in Devon shortly...

At the beginning of the week i met up with Shirley Pegna who is a researcher in the Sonic Art Research Unit (SARU) at Oxford Brookes University. We experimented with two different geophones - sending the subterranean sounds that they picked up to a pair of transducers placed on a double-bass. We listened to the sounds as they resonated through the instrument experimenting with different positions and levels of amplification. On Monday 26th we will be somewhere in a field in Devon testing out a variety of ideas using the geophones and contact microphones - who knows we may even bury a few instruments - that is - if i can find the violin that i'm pretty sure is somewhere in my loft...
(Paul Whitty)

Here are some images from the experiments this week...