Sound of Plastic should be Louder

We will be engaging the public in participative experimentation with sounding instruments made from discarded plastic containers and objects. Plastic has many different structures and properties and through using a microphone and headphones, participants will listen to the sounds that they produce and develop these through improvisation.  A library of plastic sounds will be archived alongside images of the plastic instruments used to make them, which will in future be made into an interactive website. Valuing plastics for their material qualities and reuse possibilities allows a culture of overproduction and easy disposability to be questioned. It is our intention to ‘sound off the issue’ to raise awareness of the necessity to rethink the current overproduction of plastic.