POLYCENTRE
Radio work, stereo, 21 minutes, 2020-2021
POLYCENTRE is a sound work exploring hybrid listenings formed through folding interrelated and sometimes disparate phonographies of three cities into one another. Composed from field recordings collected periodically in Australia and China within Melbourne, Kaifeng and Suzhou from 2016 to 2019, the work draws relationships between the ubiquituous sonic identity that global cities increasingly share and the heterogeneous site-specificity of places. Throughout this weave, a semi-narrative perspective of a listener wandering on foot re-emerges, encountering and navigating highly constructed spaces and sound fields within a fictitious, speculative megacity.
This project has been supported by Creative Victoria, through the Sustaining Creative Workers Initiative.