Nothing really fancy about this. Just the norm of a building site that I walked past. The only human sound is at the beginning where one of the builders is talking into his phone. So I thought I’ll reflect a bit about capturing sounds from the environment. I could be wrong but I feel that a picture is marginally easier to capture. If you miss the first milliseconds of the action but click in response to what you see happening you could get a good picture. In a certain sense the action has been framed in time and possibly our imagination can be used to ‘picture’ what happened before and what will happen next.
With sound if you miss any part of the event then it’s lost. Unless of course it’s repetitive. The frame of the action is time itself. A sound has to play itself out in time to be made sense of. A picture doesn’t seem to be such a slave of time though of course like most of reality it is timebound. These are just rudimentary unformed thoughts which I hope to develop through my explorations in sound and sound art.
Back to the building!