What Lies Beneath (small soundworks for the sleepy)
–a collaboration between Lucas Ihlein and Media Arts staff and students at the University of Wollongong.In What Lies Beneath, the industrial din which props up Sydney is recuperated through small soundworks.
During 2011, Media Arts students at the University of Wollongong made field recordings of local steel manufacturing and computer dismantling industries.
The students then synthesised, processed and edited these unlistenable sonic vibrations to produce subtle (and occasionally beautiful) “wake-up soundtracks” specially designed to structure the transition from sleep to wakefulness.
More info on What Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath website featuring all the soundworks.Sound artists: Rory Mckay, Alexandra Stevenson, Eric Lasker, Jessicah Halliday, Corryn Queenan, James Hallihan, Jamie Gray, Andrea Washington, Aidan O’Brien, Joanne McGeorge, Matthew Melendez, Matt Korvin, Nikolas Kostiainen, Lily Jones.
What Lies Beneath was presented at Tiny Stadiums Festival in Sydney, 2011. Each day throughout the festival, one of the soundworks was released online. Listeners could download and install one work per day on their smart phones, to be used as alarm clock soundtracks the following morning.
Artist Lauren Brown listened to all the works during naps in London. Her documentation is here.
What Lies Beneath was featured on Sunday Night at the Movies on FBi Radio, May 1, 2011.
In 2013, What Lies Beneath was published as a limited edition LP record, and presented at Tiny Stadiums Festival once again. Extensive linernotes by Nick Keys.