Heima (In two apartments)

An exploration of the relationship between citizens and city spaces; and more immediately, the potential of sound to evoke, describe and delineate the parameters of domestic environments.

Currently under development – with specialist acoustic design input from Arup – are a series of acoustic models of two dwellings, a typical mid-19thC tenement apartment – formerly located in the North Woodside area of Glasgow, now demolished – and its late 1960’s high-rise replacement, still standing.

Using the original working drawings of both spaces to create ambient audio representations of three dimensional space, the work will directly compare the effect and narrative potential of sound within such spaces, and seek to challenge the dominance of the visual in the archival representation of now vanished or significantly reconstructed places – in this instance mid19th–mid 20thC North Woodside in Glasgow, for a brief period one of the world's most densely populated urban areas.

As the work is currently in the developmental stage, exhibited material would include a process record, including models of the two apartments and associated web based material incorporating elements from a sound library related to the context of the work.