a collaboration with visual artist Lynn Cox, sound engineer Bob Field and a committed group of visually impaired participants, based in the Serpentine Gallery current exhibition of Rikrit Tiravanija, The Serpentine Pavilion 2005 and local spaces.

Sounding Architecture was a practical project and exploration into non visual perceptions of architectural space and the environment with multi-channelled sonic output.  Tackling analogue and digital portable recording equipment to document non visual experiences of place, such as paddle boating on the Serpentine pond, the lecture theatre at the Victoria and Albert museum, the Kensington Gardens and the Pavilion, much active listening and finding ways of working with audio software when you can’t see were explored.

To celebrate the culmination the 8 channel audio work  Head in a Sauna, Feet in a cloud, made for the Pavilion by the participants, was projected live inside it along with a treasure hunt, audio balloons, and a live broadcast on Resonance FM.

This was a collaborative project between the Serpentine gallery, Shape and Art through Touch and was conceived and facilitated by Sally Tallant, and assisted by Louise Coyosh of the Serpentine Gallery.

It ran through July 2005, was broadcast live and weekly from the gallery, Wednesday to Saturday, 10-12am on Resonance FM, and Head in a Sauna, Feet in a cloud, was presented on Saturday 6th August.

Audio software that doesn’t demand so much looking has to be developed.  Of course the architecture of synthesizers such as the analogue Korg model came well into its own as well as much tea and talking.