Sven Anderson - Blessington Sound Line

Blessington Sound Line is a semi-permanent sound installation by Sven Anderson, created for Blessington Community College in County Wicklow. Anderson worked with curator Jennie Guy and a group of 22 transition-year students on a six-week artist residency in the school, meeting once a week. Anderson developed the idea for this sound installation, and worked with the students and the school's staff to install it in one day with a small materials budget. The sound installation is formed by four boards spanning over 40 ft, mounted overhead in an outdoor passageway. The boards are fitted with sound transducers, transforming the boards into resonating speakers. The students choose combinations of sounds from an online database of field recordings that drift between boards throughout the day (played back from a computer / hardware setup installed in one of the classrooms), providing a backdrop to the everyday sounds taking place outside their school.