Location: Humboldthain Park, sitting on a bench next to a friend sitting on the bench.<\/p>\n
We walked and sat down together. Looking in front of us we could take in a particularly nice clearing. On either side the paved path connected to darker parts of bush and strategically laid behind us was a partially overgrown storage shed or restroom for the park. The street as we knew from the walk in, wasn’t too far off from us or the clearing.<\/p>\n
He set a timer for 15 minutes and we closed our eyes and started hearing around. First was farthest away as possible, I didn’t know how exactly to gauge distance and the farther I tried to hear the more I got this sensation in my head and sinuses that kind of buzzed and made me feel a bit high so I reached for longer than what I should have just to sustain the feeling. I noticed that is was easiest to not attach a source to the sounds, if I tried to hear them all simultaneously. My friend sitting beside me said that he imagined himself into a white room in order to abstract the sounds from any sort of source but then he failed to keep his eyes closed because the white room full of noise began to lull him to sleep. We didn’t describe the textures or colors but more so the way they were organized to us and the different ways we ‘failed’. When doing any project that involves sustaining sound as perceived noise, there’s always a promise of failure. We agreed that the birds were the most difficult not to distract from others sounds as well as trying not to hear it as a ‘bird sound’. After reflecting we noticed that because we had sat still in the same place long enough the squirrels had come out and were just acting like little nut-balls not so far away form where we sat. We watched them until they ran up too far in the trees and walked out of the park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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