What is HS2?
↪️“Britain’s biggest environment project”
What is Deep Listening?
↪️Gathering Qualitative Data
Who We Are
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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
Welcome to
HS2 Phase 1f: Deep Listening
The High-Speed 2 (HS2) Deep Listening team is gathering rich audio recordings all along the Phase One route of the new railway.
Equipped with the latest technology and extensively trained in focused listening techniques, our team is documenting the previously uncaptured sonic stories of the landscape before, during, and after it undergoes transformation.
Equipped with the latest technology and extensively trained in focused listening techniques, our team is documenting the previously uncaptured sonic stories of the landscape before, during, and after it undergoes transformation.
“Expanding our understanding of regional interconnectivity is the chief goal of both public transportation and ecologists who seek to foster a thriving relationship with nature. Here we align these missions by investing in a qualitative data-finding method: deep listening.”
(HS2 Phase 1f Directive)
Denham Country Park,
Uxbridge, UK
December, 2020
December, 2020
“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)
(Pauline Oliveros)
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