Chihhung Liu

Sound Geography is a publication consisting of a “voice-drawing” database. Using the “human body” as an auditory organ to perceive various sounds and voices, this project aims to explore the possibility of visualizing what we hear by connecting, transforming, and representing verbal accounts, interviews, images, and abstract/figurative sketch lines. In this project, local objects, people, and stories serve as a narrative source of inspiration. The artist associates the data and sound materials he collects from different cities and areas with his research on auditory and visual perceptions in an attempt to present the deep-seated context of local cultures through recording and archiving. To date, this ongoing project has travelled to Yamaguchi in Japan, Kaohsiung and Hengchun in Taiwan, Davao in the Philippines, Seri Begawan in Brunei, and Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia for data-collecting; the next series of city samples—Tainan, Tokyo and Sydney—are scheduled for the coming year.