HS2 Phase 1f: Deep Listening





What is HS2?

↪️“Britain’s biggest environment project”


What is Deep Listening?

↪️Gathering Qualitative Data


Who We Are

↪️Join the Deep Listening Team


What We Have Found

↪️Browse the Sound Library





“The level of awareness of soundscape brought about by Deep Listening can lead to the possibility of shaping the sound of technology and of urban environments. Deep Listening designers, engineers and city planners could enhance ... quality of life” Pauline Oliveros

“Listening with care is an active process of intervening ... it affects the representation of things, adding mediation to mediations” María Puig de La Bellacasa 


explanation from the designer
Mark

Gathering Qualitative Data


Important information and perspectives get left out of environmental assessments when we begin with a bias towards hard data. It may take years and hundreds of millions of pounds to organize the sonic information we gather at each site, but what makes recordings made with deep listening complicated also makes them unique.


We are to taught in Western societies to make meaning out of what we hear through the visual; to not consider the fine details of a soundscape as vital to our perception of something. With ears and tools trained on environments at different moments of change, otherwise untold stories can be uncovered.


Mark

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