• Peter Cusack explains ‘sonic-journalism’ as “journalism of and for the ear – the sound equivalent of photo journalism. Sound, whether based on speech or not, gives information about places and events that perhaps differ to visual images.
• Cusack highlights the importance of field recordings, in both their use as a factual work, and source material for creative manipulation.
• Cusack explains the power field recording has to portray more than factual information, shining in their ability to portray a sense of spatiality, atmosphere and timing.

By recording the soundscape of urban parks, I am effectively capturing a sonic imagine of space and time. These images, like they would be in a photobook, are examined one after the other. Each recording is a sonic image of that park, looked at naked, in its totality, before it is examined on a deeper level by ‘zooming into the sound’.