The Origin of our Species

from The Queen of the Midlands (2020) by Trekkah

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‘Our current mechanised environments, with their noise and clatter, have distanced us even further from the pleasure we take in our sense of hearing. Many are losing sensitivity to the voices of the natural wild that are both supportive and healing’

The Origin of Our Species

Within my life, hobbies and work I consider myself to be an environmentalist. I regularly take advantage of Nottinghamshire nature havens, for bird watching, wildlife photography and sound recording. Whenever I am there the encroaching human-made sounds on our ever-shrinking green spaces always upsets me. The impacts we have on our natural world make the fight one-sided for the living organisms that try to co-exist with us on planet Earth.

I wanted ‘The Origin of Our Species’ to represent an audible document of this. Starting with spaces of the beauty such as Rufford Abbey, Bestwood and Gedling County Park, I wanted to draw a sonic timeline of human growth through the industrial / electronic revolutions, presenting the noise of capitalism and the physical fight of natures call from behind the noise. I feel the piece works on ‘imposing’ a force of human sounds onto the natural soundscapes.

At dawn chorus the noise is still audible, with the slow drown of motorways and aircrafts over head. The story moves from nature into agriculture and farming, the beginning of capitalist growth, this is when the rainstorm begins. We journey through Trade, Shops, Markets, Money, inside factories drowns and the piercing noise of construction. As the people grow, so does the consumption and the trade. The transportation links are laid – cars, trains, planes, cargo and freight. The sounds of our natural world cries as it is drowned out, torn apart and polluted. The piece concludes with natures only hope, a futuristic gesture symbolising the end of human existence itself or the journey of humans towards planets new. An apocalypse or a search for a new world, untouched world in which they can settle. One can only hope that maybe this new world isn’t tainted with capitalist destruction. With this departure, what is left behind is physical and audible space for mother nature to regenerate herself and reclaim her original form.

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from The Queen of the Midlands (2020), released April 29, 2020

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