Boynton, Neil (2013) Listening to Landscapes: On the Relationship between sound and image in The Sonification of Morecambe Bay and au fil du temps. In: Aux Ecoutes des Images :. UNSPECIFIED. (Submitted)
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In 2006 I was involved as workshop leader and participant in the project ‘Re-Enchantment and Reclamation: New Perceptions of Morecambe Bay’ hosted by Lancaster University, UK (http://www.re-enchantment.org.uk/). The sound and film workshops reconsidered our relationship with landscape, attempting to fashion a new understanding of the environment in light of recent philosophical and technological advances. For me, this was the trigger for a series of experiments in time-lapse photography, the first located in the bay, the second in the alpine regions of Haute Savoie. This paper will explore how the soundtracks for the videos that resulted from these photographic experiments relate to the visual imagery. For the Morecambe Bay video, data from a weather station, mounted on the same building as the camera, was used to control elements of the soundtrack, creating an emphatically literal relationship between sound and image. The soundtrack for the alpine video was created from a set of algorithmically generated layers, which have an impressionistic relationship with the images, evincing in different ways a sympathy with the rhythms and emergent themes of the video. Both soundtracks are in their own ways tightly coordinated with the visual imagery.