Domestic Dawn Chorus, 2015

This is a moving image work approx 14 mins in length. The accounts/descriptions read in search of identifying a particular species of bird can prove problematic: the words used in written description, are, at times, incompatible with what is heard or what is experienced. The proposed work attempts to find a more concrete way of capturing and scrutinising these sounds, providing everyday objects as visual equivalents to written translations of sound. The written descriptions are points of departure to consider the discrepancies between what is heard and how this is transcribed. The work encourages the viewer to consider alternate ways of describing and thinking about sound, and plays with traditional modes of learning, using personal experience.