Glass sculpture with sonogram and sound

Reid's glass works have used rock formations and other geological formations to create structures in glass. In collaboration with Godman and Rob Phillips, they have recorded and created sonograms from sound files placed into a solid block of optical-quality glass, resulting in a delicate 3D image inside the glass evocative of the original sound.

'One Island - Many Visions' is an exhibition at Tout Quarry, Portland, presented by a group of artists who are members the Royal Society of Sculptors.

A single visual representation of the location – the call of a wren – is captured as a sonogram and transferred to glass. Godman's accompanying soundscape, uses the same location and source – the bird call representing transience in a place that is rooted in geological time, reflecting changes to the Anthropocene.

Frozen in time, the wren sonogram allows us to explore the sound ‘out of time’, whilst the soundscape distorts our sense of time as it unfolds. Making use of sounds that may have been present in the quarry throughout history, we hear echoes of the past entwining human and naturally occurring phenomena.