Fallender Ton Für 207 Lautsprecher Boxen (Falling Tone for 207 Loudspeakers) and 230 Unwanted Speakers.

“Falling Tone for Loudspeakers” is a gallery-based installation work that deploys a number of discarded (but working) hi-fi speakers. The original version was created in 2005 as part of a two-month residency in Berlin. The initial collection of speakers was supplemented by other donated by Braal, an electronics recycling company. The 207 speakers used in the Berlin installation were brought back to the UK and a new site-specific version of the work commissioned by Hull Art Lab in 2006. By the time of the Hull work, the number of speakers involved in the installation had expanded to 230. The Berlin installation involved 7 channels of audio distributed in moving patterns through the mass of speakers with an 8th channel emerging from the huge speaker embedded in the wall. The Hull installation used 17 channels of audio and, like the Berlin piece, made use of the aural equivalent of an optical illusion. This time instead of a constantly falling tone, an apparently endlessly rising set of tones was used. The sounds circulating around the outer speakers were synthesised in situ in response to the ambient sounds of this former potato warehouse and were designed to blur the boundaries between the real and the synthetic. The sounds used on the central speakers were 'pure' sine tones edited and arranged for 8 channel diffusion. The size of the installations required significant funding support from Deptford X, the Arts Council of England, the British Council, Museum of Installation, Kunstfabrik and Creative Lewisham Agency amongst others. The installations were the focus of a paper written by the researcher for Soundscape, the international journal of acoustic ecology, which featured documentation of the work on its cover. The researcher has been commissioned to develop the work for a solo show at London’s Beaconsfield Gallery in 2008