Test Tone for Landscape

Test Tone for Landscape, by Adam Chodzo, sculpture

"1 of a series of 5 clear vinyl 12” records and ink - the series is made up of five clear, separately numbered, vinyl 12″ records each containing five tracks. Each track is created from domestic ambient sounds (the hum of a fridge, the ‘ping’ of a bowl etc) collected from Adam Chodzko’s home in order to create five different tones along a scale. Each of the five records is to play a separate tone, simultaneously, from five sound-systems placed around an environment (a hillside, a forest, part of a city etc). Various harmonies of a chord can be heard depending on the position of a listener in relation to the location of these five sound- systems as they move through a place.  For any area, of any size, the precise positions for the sound- systems can be mapped (at least, poetically) through the markings scratched into the wood grain on each record ‘sleeve’, each sleeve being fabricated from the same walnut- veneered bed headboard (full of the sleeper’s dreams). Each record and sleeve is ultimately allocated to five different owners who then need to return together in order to generate the harmonies from their respective parts of the test tone." (source: www.adamchodzko.com)