Sound action recordings are of sounds designed to affect people, including situations where many make sounds together towards a common goal. Often they're of voices, but they also include sirens, bells, fireworks and more.
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| Finches installation Barbican | Finches chatter and set off amplified instruments at Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's Barbican show. | 1:45 | 2010 |
| Organ of Corti sound sculpture | A resonant droning sound is heard from within the Organ of Corti sound sculpture outside St Pauls Cathedral. | 0:50 | 2011 |
| Particle Waves Arebyte Gallery | Kian Peng Ong's sound installation 'Particle Waves' at Arebyte Gallery, Hackney, east London. | 2:30 | 2014 |
| Rubbing the Unity Stone | Wet hands rub the smooth top of the Unity Stone sound sculpture, producing a hollow drone. | 1:05 | 2011 |
| Ships opera Thames Festival | Tugs, lightships and other vessels play a musical composition with their horns and whistles. | 8:25 | 2013 |
| Tim Hunkin Novelty Automation | The sounds of four arcade-style contraptions in Tim Hunkin's Novelty Automation show. | 6:24 | 2015 |
| Westfield Stratford sound sculpture | A sculpture in the Westfield Stratford shopping centre tries to evoke a sense of nature with a soundscape recording. | 1:25 | 2014 |
| Diamond Jubilee gun salute | The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery fire guns on Horseguards Parade to mark the Diamond Jubilee. | 2:58 | 2012 |
| Diamond Jubilee Thames bells | A crowd cheers as the Diamond Jubilee flotilla passes by and bells are heard ringing from the leading barge. | 2:00 | 2012 |
Classification: Social > Sound art sculpture and performance
Recording date: 2 July 2011
Description: Noisy street scene with constant traffic. A resonant droning sound is heard as the recordist steps inside the Organ of Corti sound sculpture by St Pauls Cathedral. The sculpture consists of an array of slender, 4-metre-high perspex columns.
Technical guff: Headworn stereo. 2 x DPA 2006C mics, Sound Devices MixPre-D preamp, Sony PCM M10 recorder.
Recorded by: IM Rawes
Additional notes: None.