ABSTRACT
The research is hampered by an over reliance on visual cues, is limited by representational scale and the information others have chosen to omit even though the initial approaches are useful when assessing sound recording possibilities. They compound a sense of distance from the desired location and one is left to rely on a kind of remote sonic imagining based on such scant knowledge. Given the time available and distances involved, it soon became apparent that some kind of wide ranging sound gathering or survey was an unrealistic end. Equally, making sound with the objects the author had brought along the impractical given the space and time needed to set them up, not to mention their total weight in relation to Outlandia's location halfway up a steep valley side, plus this idea didn't engage with the surrounding landscape in a way that he found interesting.
