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2025
E-Waste Feedback Loop
Mono Channel Installation
Ambient Afternoon Festival
Wimborne Minster UK

A feedback loop is created with two Sony speakers found next to a waste bin as potential Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) by UK law. One speaker has been converted into a microphone. Field recordings are played, produced from household-scrap microphones, taken across various industrial waste sites the UK. These sounds are picked up by the converted speaker-microphone and fed back into the system. These "lo-fideltiy" microphone recordings can be heard as the result of "waste listening to waste". The recordings in turn blend with an ambient layer of feedback mitigated by two Zoom H6 recording devices that sit atop the various sonic WEEE material accumulated and collected by the artist. The works addresses the problematic entanglement of field recording practice with the global waste crisis and the complicit involvement of the artist within it. 

The work was commissioned by the Outlands Network exchange programme. 

© design by Peter Collins.

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