FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday 16th January 2007
SOUND MARKS by SOUNDNERDS Broadcast on ACTIVE 89FM, Feb 9th to March 2nd
Every weekday morning of the Fringe at 8.45am
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LAND MARKS IN SOUND
Wellington sound editors Dayton Lekner and Stephen Gallagher are the SoundNerds. Their new project for this year’s
Fringe Festival is SOUND MARKS: every day sounds of the capital city recorded by the duo and broadcast over the airwaves
every weekday morning at 8.45am on Active89FM.
“ A Sound Mark can be thought of as the aural equivalent to a land mark,” says Stephen “ Dayton and I travel through
Wellington and record sound events that are unique to the capital. These sounds are then broadcast on Active89FM at
8.45am for a minute every weekday morning. It’s like the two of us are sending you sound ‘postcards’ as we travel and
explore the city. A new Wellington ‘Sound Of The Day’ every weekday morning.”
Lekner and Gallagher came together last year with the desire to create a project using the unique sounds of the capital
city. The two of them began to poll their friends about what their most favourite and least favourite Wellington sounds
were.
“The responses were amazing,” Dayton enthuses, “ from the huge amount of answers we received it was possible, even on
paper, to recognise that Wellington is a unique sounding city. We wanted to create a project that took these every day
sounds of our city and presented them in a different context. We love the idea of someone tuning into the radio and
hearing these ‘sound landmarks’ broadcast over the airwaves. It’s like we’re telling a story of Wellington using the
city’s own unique voices. We’re listening to our town.”
SOUND MARKS begins on the 9th of February at 8.45am on Radio Active 89 FM. Tune in to hear the Sound Nerds present their
sound of the day.
ENDS