LUKA IVANOVIĆ A.K.A. LUKATOYBOY
stream of car sounds, in which we are able to identify only those much louder than average events: blasting music, obsessive honking, trash picking, police or emergency sirens etc. This particular example of a zooming out / zooming in thought process relating to “sound pollution� was constant throughout my stay in Hailuoto. Talking further about this, I was informed about a single hut being alone in the woods, far away from the other houses and roads, therefore without sounds to disturb you. But there was a catch, it had a certain device, impossible to turn off, probably related to air, water or a sort of a fire alarm, and that sound usually disturbed the guests in the hut. It is another example of how much we can be focused to particular sound after being accustomed to the uncontrollable varieties of sounds and background noise in a city, and since recently, the majority of the population lives in a citylike soundscape. Another very site-specific sound, albeit more as an effect, was tested and used for recordings - the Organum, an acoustic sculpture made by an architect and curated by Hai Art. It is positioned far away enough from any
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neighbour, after a road ends, and water starts. The particular acoustics are free for everyone to explore, and there is no plane, car or similar sounds to disturb you - although you may hear some birds, depending on their time for calls. I also recorded a sound of a friction, squeaks and bangs made during the contact between a sock gangway and the land in Marjaniemi marina. These particular sounds last only while there is some particular wind, which causes water level to change (since there is no proper low tide / high tide) and/or brings a bit more waves into the marina than usual built protection allows. It is an interesting sound, not only because of its musicality - you could easily imagine free improv percussionists and brass players - but also because of its dual origin - the construction would not provide any sound if no unpredictable and particular natural/geographical events would occur, nor would there be something like a dock gangway without the human in(ter)vention. This also is related to the topic of geography above.