JOHN TONKIN
John Tonkin, soundfield#1, with the falling of the light, 2021, VR headset and headphones, custom webXR software,
ambisonic field recordings.
Tonkin has recorded bird calls at dusk using ambisonics, a technique for capturing three-dimensional sound fields for virtual reality experiences. His diagrammatic landscape represents the soundtope as a kind of ‘unfolding spatiotemporal synaesthesia … situating the participant within the sensory world of birds’.