Records of Attention, 2026-current
Limited Edition drawings from this project are available to purchase here.
Records of Attention is an ongoing project that explores the visual phenomena embedded within sound. Through field recording, custom-written algorithms, and mechanical drawing, the project transforms sound into a series of plotted drawings, silent records of listening.
Each work begins with a field recording made in a place of sonic significance. These sites may be natural habitats, encounters with animals, or urban environments where sound, or its absence, shapes the character of the space. The recordings are not treated as documentation alone, but as material: traces of energy, time, and attention.
For every recording site, a unique computational system is designed and written from scratch. These custom algorithms listen differently to the sound, each one exploring a specific aspect of its structure, rhythm, or dynamics. Rather than relying on conventional visualisations such as waveforms or spectrograms, the project invents its own visual language for sound, extracting dynamics, relationships, and patterns, and translating them into lines.
Sound data is processed through mathematical and informational principles, woven together with intuition and lived experience from the act of recording. Knowledge of how different sound groups are perceived, such as the way natural soundscapes are cognitively encoded over time, informs the structure of the systems. In this way, the drawings do not illustrate sound directly, but absorb the logic of listening itself.
The resulting visuals hover between image and score, map and memory. They are plotted mechanically, producing drawings that inscribe vibrations and topologies of relation: echoes, afterglow, density, and absence. Each line carries a fragile resonance, a spectral imprint of a sound already gone.
Released as a series of prints through 2026, Records of Attention invites viewers into concealed sonic worlds. The drawings hold sound without making it audible, offering silent scores for listening with the eyes. By shifting attention from isolated sonic events to the broader soundscape, the work asks how drawing can change the act of listening, slowing it down, extending it, and making the invisible visible.