I visited River Sounding over the weekend – the audio/video exhibition by Bill Fontana at Somerset House.
He’s recorded audio and shot video along the full length of the Thames and then used it in an installation placed in the Lightwells and Dead House beneath Somerset House’s courtyard.
There are lots of little rooms and enclosures with projections against the mostly bare walls accompanied with audio.
I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to record any audio within the exhibition, and in any case, it wouldn’t easily reproduce well – particularly not the bass rumblings that sometimes come from massive speakers more usually found at rock concerts.
Nonetheless, I did record some of the noise of the fountains. What you can hear is me walking through the fountains and getting wet in the process. There’s a bit of wind on the microphone as I move.
Listen!
There are a couple more pictures here.
