I went on a walk with a friend to Hampstead heath and began noticing the potential noisiness in nature. I kicked myself for not bringing my film camera I had intended to try for this project so just used my phone as tester images to then try recreate. However the photos stuck. I have used my phone a lot in previous projects and like the accessibility and universality of it. I used a black and white filter originally because that was the film I had but also as it highlighted the contrasts and grain in the images. as well as it being concurrent to harsh noise music aesthetics and imagery.
I was attracted to the almost alien, contorted looking quality of the debris, detritus, bark, branches, fungi, cobwebs, leaves… The idea of finding the distortion and ugliness in typically idyllic nature appealed to me. (similar to finding the feedback noise inside the mixer? which is the sound element that will accompany it). I was also reminded of the Japanese idea of Komorebi – sunlight leaking through trees – which links to the idea of projection and how I could creatively and sculpturally use it to block or reflect light.
I cropped and resized the pictures to make it landscape and 16:9 to organise into a slideshow video as accompaniment to noise. I decided on 12 images showing for 10 seconds each, a stable rhythm to contrast the unsteady noise. I chose the pictures I wanted to use based on elements such as how distorted the scale was, how grainy the image was, how abstract and difficult to tell what it actually was. Ultimately what I thought was noise represented visually.