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To accompany the photographs in this exhibition www.tiggallery.com/exhibitions/light-by-the-sea, Tom has made a series of sound sketches drawing on his embodied experience of these landscapes, and the physical and environmental data associated with the project.

Tom: First, I record ambient sounds of the places and moments in which these images were first created. Then I ‘translate’ the lightwaves of the image into soundwaves using a wavetable synthesiser - that is - the literal ‘shape’ of light in the image is re-made into a signature waveform - a sort of audible equivalent of what your eyes are seeing when you are standing in front of the image. And then the image’s actual location comes into play in a different way! Using the Ordnance Survey grid reference numbers for the places where each photograph was taken, I create short arpeggios and chord sequences using the pentatonic scale, enabling the image’s map co-ordinates to take on a melodic form. Finally, using a process of creative layering, I combine the light soundwaves, locational melodies and ambient recordings into the finished sound sketches which accompany this short film.