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He is a sound artist and composer who “investigates his fascination with the hidden world of electro-magnetic radiation and in particular how sound can be used as evidence of invisible phenomena”. On Ray Lee’s website we find an impressive list of exhibitions and performances, as well as beautiful image material of his recent projects Siren, Force Field and Swarm.
Visit www.invisible-forces.com to read more about these awe-inspiring projects.
1. What sound from your childhood made the most impression on you?
Audio memory is fickle. Try to remember your earliest sonic memory and it’s really hard not to reconstruct the sound that you think you should have heard. Sound is ever present, but not ever conscious in our experience of the world. The sound we remember is replaced in our memory by a more recent version of the same or similar sound. I use this as an exercise in some of my teaching, asking my students to try and remember their earliest sound from childhood. It can be very revealing and is important in the way that it shows how we prioritise our senses.
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