Beacon.Black
beacon.black is an acoustic experience designed to transport its audience through the desolate but striking landscape of Orford Ness and its history of listening to and transmitting sound.
Beacon.Black is a 24-hour radio station which is inspired by Orford Ness’s history of spying and signal jamming as well as capturing its current transmissions from migratory birds and the ever-present wind.
beacon.black is home to an album’s worth of audio content, based on augmented field recordings that I made on Orford Ness alongside a second stream exploring the history of surveillance and broadcast of the ‘island of secrets’.
This work is part of the hybrid physical and online exhibition Afterness which runs 1 July until 30 October 2021, commissioned and produced by Artangel. Presented in partnership with the National Trust.
Beacon.black is conceived by Brian d’Souza and designed by Futurimpose
Stream 1 - All audio composed by Brian d’Souza in Flo Studios, London.
Stream 2 - Various recordings made on Orford Ness by Chris Watson, Iain Chambers and recordings from The Conet Project
