ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on the production of Concrete Antenna, a place-based sound installation in Newhaven, Edinburgh, between 2015–2016. It suggests that a relational and dynamic notion of place can inspire experimental composition techniques which blur sound and music. Place is imagined here as a composition itself: one that has elements which are seemingly permanent and patterned; and others which are fleeting, chaotic or imperceptible. Three themes of place-attentive approaches are developed to describe compositional and installation processes based on such an understanding of place: distributed listening; the place-specific-non-specific; and auditory topographies of chance. Together, these approaches outline a more-than-human compositional approach to responding to, and joining with, the fluxes of life of a place.
