This is a study of industrial noise and the different forms it can take.
I am exploring and asking questions about what noise represents to me – for me it can mean the sound of family, community, and the hum of machines and objects can be hypnotic, almost mimicking drones found in the religious music I was raised with.
My mother worked in factories and I remember those sounds. While at the time I hated those sounds as a kid, the sounds of the machines whirring loudly with the voices of women talking loudly over the machines about their rights, how to leave situations of domestic violence and how to support one another juxtaposed against religious drone music became a sonic landscape that is now home for me. This is a comfortable and reassuring soundspace. And I now have questions about about how we perceive and understand “noisescapes”.
I find noise complaints about neighbours, traffic and community confusing – especially those that choose to live in a city. Complaining about noise made by humans who are just living with their day to day lives is for me the start of controlling human activity, expression, and the sounds that accompany living.
