Air Pressure
Air Pressure was a long-term collaboration between anthropologist Rupert Cox and myself It draws on our experiences of recording the activities of the last farming family living within the concrete and steel infrastructure of Japan's largest airport, where noise - of taxiing and of take-offs and landings - exerts a constant pressure from before dawn until well after dusk. The work has also been informed by an extended collaboration with Professor Kozo Hiramatsu (formerly the UK President of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), who participated in the second period of fieldwork and who has provided us with the perspective of acoustic science.
Air Pressure has been many things. It started life as a single-screen film at the Royal Anthropological Institute's Ethnographic Film Festival, became an installtion at the Whitworth Art Gallery as part of the Manchester Asia Triennale, a CD and booklet for the record label Gruenrekorder and then became a film that has continued to tour galleries and festivals.
Air Pressure has been many things. It started life as a single-screen film at the Royal Anthropological Institute's Ethnographic Film Festival, became an installtion at the Whitworth Art Gallery as part of the Manchester Asia Triennale, a CD and booklet for the record label Gruenrekorder and then became a film that has continued to tour galleries and festivals.
There is more information about the Air Pressure CD, including reviews and excerpts from the album's tracks, at the Gruenrekorder website, there is a blog we kept while working on the project and there is the film, Kiatsu: The Sound of The Sky Being Torn. The Air Pressure project was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
