Listen to Easterbrooks

Listen to Easterbrooks | 2014 | 50-minute sound sequence, looped, with digital imagery

I'm sharing some work in progress at Devon Open Studios.  Listen to Easterbrooks is an experimental transcription, in sound, of temperature data collected from Easterbrooks, a warm, south-facing pasture on West Town Farm, near Exeter. Five different sensors are represented by five different sampled sounds, which are played so that each semitone represents a difference of 0.5°C in temperature reading. Higher pitched sounds represent warmer temperatures, while lower pitched sounds correspond to cooler temperatures (usually at night). Readings were taken every 30 minutes over 40 days in July and August 2014, and each 24-hour cycle takes about 75 seconds to play as sound.

These measurements of soil and air temperatures were made as part of a collaboration with Dr Jonathan Bennie, an Associate Research Fellow at Exeter University’s Environment and Sustainability Institute. The project, Foreign Soil, asks what it means to eat local food, through a documented attempt to grow edible dessert bananas (Dwarf Cavendish) outdoors in Devon. 

It's on just for one week at OrganicArts, West Town Farm, Ide, nr Exeter, Devon EX2 9TG.  11am-6pm daily.  It's installed in a stable in the farmyard, but you can also listen on mobile devices in Easterbrooks itself.

Foreign Soil is supported by the ESI/RANE Creative Exchange Programme and OrganicArts. Technical Consultant: Tim King. 

http://www.organicarts.org.uk