The Mundane

Initially stalled by trying to think of an immaterial phenomenological sound that the fit the criteria of being poly temporal and poly scalar, I decided to approach the project from another angle. I am interested in the sounds of the everyday. The mundane. The banal.

There is nothing Phenomenological about the mundane sounds that we hear everyday, however, perhaps this is because we are not actually listening to these sounds. Everything makes a sound, a vibration, a movement, etc. Our ears do pick up on many of these things because we do not want to hear them. There is nothing exciting, informative or new about the sounds that we are used to hearing everyday.

What are the sounds that we are used to hearing so often that we barely register them?
What are the sounds that we try to tone out of our daily activities?
What are the sounds that we try to eliminate through mechanical and technological sound proofing?
What are the sounds that we do not hear but are constantly around us?

How can we take the mundane and create a phenomenological experience through a recording and a transformation?