NonAmbient
Ailstair Gentry
30 September - 18 November 2000

NonAmbient was an infinite, self-generating sound work about motorised, mechanical, electrical and electonic voices of the environments we build and create for ourselves.

Alistair Gentry was artist in residence in Stirling over four months and made hours of recordings in and around the area. The sounds have been digitally manipulated and reassembled, leaving us listening to fragments of lives overloaded with audio pollution. Nearly one million possible permutations of the sounds are produced through this process and the software finds its own way to navigate all of them.

The constantly evolving stream of audio in the gallery may at times suggest stories or questions.  Why is there jazz in the radiators?  How many faxes, phone calls and text messages are passing through the room just now?

A New Media Scotland Commission supported by the Scottish Arts Council.