Join artist Maya Chowdhry for a creative, sensory workshop exploring Wild soundscapes.
This workshop, based in Wild within our Exhibition Hall, encourages us to think about our environmental soundscapes – what we hear, how they differ across the city and times of year, and what a ‘healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’ soundscape sounds like.
Maya will guide us, using biodata sonification technology and household objects to create group soundscapes that will be amplified during the workshop throughout the Wild exhibition.
What to expect
An exploration of wildness and the WILD exhibition using our sense of sound.
Sound-based creation and recording activities to create real and imagined ‘wild’ soundscapes. Opportunity to learn from Maya about how recordings of soundscapes are used to measure biodiversity.
What are soundscapes?
A soundscape is a collection of sounds, called soundmarks, that make up the sonic environment of a place – this can be interior or exterior.
Maya Chowdhry is an interdisciplinary artist and activist. She uses art to enable audiences to participate in artworks in a way that activates them to question the world around them. Her artworks are often interactive and lean into her past work in audiowalks and live art. Maya’s practice interrogates themes such as world water scarcity, food sovereignty, and climate justice.
She is currently creating sound experiences utilising biodata sonification; turning brainwaves into melodies and plant waves into soundwaves – seeking to find a shared language between the human and the more-than-human.
https://interactiveartist.org/