week 5
This week we went to Leytonstone to look at Graeme Miller’s execution about the rehousing project that made over 500 people homeless. He used sound broadcasts to portray the people who used to live there, by following a map you can tap into these transitions and listen to the stories of the people who lived there.
My reflections
I thought it was a very moving work, the voices you hear on the broadcast are very ghost like which I thought to be almost creepy. I really liked the way you could hear the voices of the old residents over the sound of the motorway that made people loose their homes. It feels like it’s a forgotten piece of the past and gives people a voice for the people who used to lived there.
On top of this the people in these audio signals are reflecting on the objects around them that still exist today. I gave me a sense of reality to the situation that happened and gives these voices a visual sense which brings them even more to life.
The people who walk past you during this sound experience gives you a strange livelihood to the people that live there. It gave the walk more depth and giving into this harsh reality of the unpleasant history of this place.
It made me think about my own work, this idea of personal digital signals in a beatuful prospect for my own work. I have decided to record the voicemails on my phone as a peice of personailty captured in recording.
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