I worked with the team at Kin and sound artist Nick Ryan to create a site specific sound sculpture to commemorate Duxford’s centenary . Nick wanted to use light to transmit archival audio recordings of people’s memories of Duxford airbase. Kin were brought on as collaborators to design, produce and install the sculpture, and technology.
We developed a sculptural abstract place form that hung in a site specific hangar at Duxford. One hundred lights lie underneath the plane’s fabric surface and custom electronics allow each light to transmit it’s own audio signal. Each light pulses as narrative fragments, voices, signals, anecdotes, and stories are played through them.
Visitors used a custom made receiver (with a light sensor and headphones) to pick up the signals and listen to the stories.
