What is Now and What Could Have Been (mp3) (flac) (right-click or option-click to download)
What is Now and What Could Have Been is an outdoor sound installation work created for the 2007 Art on the Trail on the Gwynns Falls Trail, in Baltimore, MD. It begins and ends with the sounds of the park as it is, with birds, water, and human movement. The sounds transform into the sounds of the park's soundscape had the East-West Expressway not been stopped. Cars, sirens, engines, trucks can all be heard to point out what was supposed to have been built through the park. The natural soundscape was recorded onsite on the Gwynns Falls Trail and in Leakin Park during the first half of 2007. The highway sounds were pieced together from recordings from the Freesound Project (http://freesound.iua.upf.edu). For more info on the piece and credits to the Freesound Project artists, please go to http://www.elsalankford.com/GFT/soundWorks.html.
More info: www.elsalankford.com
Soundscape: The Journal of Acoustic Ecology is published by the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology
This site maintained by Steven M. Miller - pubweb.csf.edu/~smill
Background photo: Sitting Bull Falls, near Carlsbad New Mexico, USA by Steven M. Miller