Sonic Portraits is a 30-minute immersive spatial sound installation, conceived and produced as winner of the Audio Canvas competition (Roundhouse Youth Programme) and subsequently exhibited at the Crypt Gallery, London. It translates urban noise pollution into a three-dimensional composition.
The work examines the noise that shapes daily life and asks listeners to move from passive hearing to active listening. Noise pollution is now the second-largest environmental health threat in urban areas. The piece traces how constant sound wears on mind and body. Stress, anxiety and learned helplessness. Not as statistics, but as something felt in the room.
Within the density, the composition carves out pockets of stillness. Moments that return the listener to the present and make audible what is usually ignored. Every environment influences us, just as we shape our surroundings. The piece argues for taking better care of our spaces, and in doing so, of each other.
Listening notes. 30 minutes, best experienced whole, eyes closed.
There is no such thing as a neutral space.Play Sonic Portraits
