Projects
→ 2025 Radiogrrrl.
→ 2025 SSTV.
→ 2025 Feminist writings on CB.
→ 2025 Listening ears.
→ 2024 Politics of Breathing.
→ 2024 Sonic Patterning.
→ 2024 All without ever even stopping.
my radio setup
Sound Mirrors
The initial inspiration for this project began in Denge, Dungeness. An ex-airforce sight that has in recent year been taken over by the RSPB to preserve wildlife. On this sight due to the wildlife preservation is one of the longest standing examples of a sound mirror, a 200ft long concrete, concave wall thats primary function is to channel and direct sound so that it is concentrated into one spot. Origionally this technology was used as a first point of defence along the East coastlines of the UK, pinpointing incoming airstrikes from oversees during the first world war.
However, by world war two they were rendered mostly useless by the development of radar as well as planes becomming faster. The three dishes now stand rendered useless mostly for the publics spectical. The island is unreachable uless acess is given by the RSPB but if you can reach the sight it becomes a whisper wall/echo chamber/amplifier of sorts. You can be stood 60m apart and still hold a conversation perfectly without raising your voice.
The idea of communication over long distance began to fascinate me and this became the very first sound experiment Abi and I hosted, talking across a small island to each other and recording the sounds.
- (left) triptych, Abi and I facing the sound. (looking at the sound mirrors, and looking at what they capture)
- (below) whispers on the wall.
- Scarth, R. Echos from the sky. (1999) Hythe Civic Society