[Description of Audio Event]

‘What is the relationship between man and the sounds of his environment, and what happens when those sounds change?’ - R.Murray Schafer

ear-of-the-storm is a beginning and explorative step into ideas of the local and assumed soundscapes, thinking of the social and psychological implications sound and the potential for interrupting and altering these within the everyday.

Five months of weather storms, rain, hail etc have been captured in audio and assembled as one conclusive storm lasting 30 minutes. This possible sound track has been placed on a radio frequency allowing this alternative soundcape to be tuned in to and found or lost as it appears to interrupt the radio waves from which it is broadcast.

A collection of small wind up radios and in ear headphones will cluster together in different locations, visitors are invited to pluck a radio form the collection, place the headphones on, sit back and take in the storm. Each action will change the shape of the storm and allow it to move gradually around a venue.

It can be found in various locations and broadcasting from various radio stations across East Kent this summer, blowing from place to place around the kentish towns.

This project has been funded by the Arts Development at Canterbury City Council.