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How does a site sound?
How can a sound be registered and communicated?
Is it possible, to reproduce a site via its sound? 

These are the questions that the German sound artist Helmut Lemke investigates. In order to answer them, he spent several weeks in different sites shaped primarily by natural producers of sound like wind and water, where acoustic events are collected. The obvious method of technical sound recording, however, was not very satisfactory when attempting to capture site-specific sounds in their own context. Media like drawings, journal notes and photography thus became more relevant and more useful in this reflection of the complex sound of a site.

The catalogue brings together Lemke’s acoustic experiences via drawings, text, photography and sound (on the enclosed CD).

biography
1953 born in Cappel/Lippstadt, Germany
since 1995 teaching assignments in Germany, France, Finland, Thailand and England
1997 Research Fellow in Interactive Arts (Media Events), Manchester Metropolitan University
1997–2000 work and development of the new phonetic art course of study at Hull College of Art and Design
2004–2007 AHRC-Research Fellow at University of Salford, England
lives and works in Todmorden, England, and in Bielefeld, Germany