Siân Landau
Deep Time is a geological concept that studies rock formations in order to identify the events of, and comprehend the billions of years behind, planet Earth’s history. It’s a time scale that extends before and beyond anything human, and has been the source of Siân Landau’s inspiration as they develop long-durational, sonic and visual encounters with a desire to produce something akin to a sublime experience within the audience.
Within this, Siân explores themes of ‘haunted geologies’ and the eerie through multiple strands in her practice, the primary strand being sound-making; collecting field recordings from landscapes she visits and combining them with synthesised sounds to create imagined soundscapes from deep beneath us. In her field work she also documents the sites through analogue and digital photography, and film, building a bank of references she can use to create graphics and projections for each installation.
Siân is excited that their research is part of an expanding field of sound art and sonic explorations, and they have an interest in radio broadcasting and online streaming as well as in-person installations as sites for this research; creating the capacity for audio to be experienced individually, as a collective.