Timothy Crowley Sound Installation Artist

Collaborative Work in Progress with Artist Kate Ogley

Photographic Sound Installation

We are currently working on photographic sound installation. Each installation is our own re-experience of a place in Cornwall that we have become familiar with through wild camping and cycling. We have taken analogue sequential panoramic photographs, and produced large wall triptychs, and made sound recordings using a little known a early 20th century technique, and adapted, developed and refined a speaker system which projects surround sound from a point behind the panoramic photograph. Some of the sounds appear to be located outside the photograph to the left and right, seeming to be in fixed illusionary positions in the room, allowing you to move around the soundscape.

2022 Moon, Trees and Owls Image for photographic sound installation

Owl recording (stereo edit)

2022 Mulfra Quiot Image for photographic sound installation

Mulfra Quiot recording (stereo edit)

Tree recordings

We have been making a series of field recordings of trees. Initially we focused on the sounds made by the wind in the branches and leaves of trees, and seems to possess an oceanic quality. More recently we have been using contact mics on the trunks of the trees to hear the sound of the rising sap in the xylem tubes. The recordings reveal surprising sloshing and guzzling sounds, as well as knocks, creaks and groans within the timber.

recording using contact mics on the trunk of an oak tree