About
May 15, 1984 I was ten years old and my bedtime was 8:00pm. The final episode of Three’s Company was airing and I was stuck in bed with the only laugh track filtering under my door.
Come and knock on my door…
The next morning I awoke to discover a cassette tape beside my cereal bowl. My mother, in a moment of imaginative audio engineering had leaned the tape recorder against the TV and pressed record – just as the theme song began.
We’ve been waiting for you…
Listening to the cassette became an obsession, a dedication to wring- out every subtle nuance from a recording never intended for radiophonic broadcast.
So developed an interest in sound as a descriptor of places, as container of secrets and teller of stories. My work listens to the sound of our landscapes: personal, urban, and disappearing natural spaces.
Although listening fulfills a constant curiosity, it is a focus on the creation of places to-be-listened-to that informs my practice as artist and landscape architect. My work has developed from documentary-style field recordings of architectural space to landscape and gallery installations. Taking musique concrète to its natural architectural conclusion, spaces built to be listened to.
Douglas Moffat
Montréal
December 2006