SoundSwinn: Everyday Attunement - A Practice Development Project in Interactive Sound Objects

This example, Hold, drift, answer, steady and close, demonstrates the listening and interaction principles that underpin the SoundSwinn project.

It is a collaborative sound piece made with a participant with profound and multiple learning disabilities, using simple tactile music technology. The work is designed for repeated use, with subtle acoustic shifts including reverb, swell, breath and sound absorption, allowing interaction to unfold gradually and at the participant’s pace.

This reflects my facilitation-led practice, centred on attuned listening, non-verbal communication and care-led sound interaction. SoundSwinn builds on this approach by exploring how these relational qualities can be translated into a fixed, repeatable sound object for everyday use.