Hi, I’m Rob.

The vision

Macro photography, but with sound

I capture tiny sounds and bring them up to life size. And I film them too: my macro camera makes the world look big, so the picture is as close as the sound.

Tiny sounds we walk past every day, turned up until you can feel them.

This whole project is a hunt for the perfect tiniest sound. It’s exploration, learning, and discovery. That sound could be hiding anywhere in everyday life: fingertips tapping a table, a pencil scratching across paper, a book dropped on a table, a wooden bench creaking as someone slides along it.

Every one of these everyday things is unique in its own way. Take a pencil on paper. The tiniest sound it makes depends on the grain of the paper, the thickness of the paper and the book, the sharpness of the pencil, where you place your hand, how hard you press, and how you lift the pencil off between strokes. Then there’s what the paper is sitting on. A metal table or a wooden one? How does the table affect the resonance? Does the table make sounds too, from its grain and the way it’s built? I could go on and on. Our everyday things are one of a kind, impossible to reproduce. I’m on a hunt!

Where it’s going

Every session adds to a library of sounds and videos. It becomes my sound art, my reference for recreating sounds in the studio, and a way to explore sound healing: how sound, vibration, and resonance can help tune the body and mind in our everyday wellness practices.

Everything around us has its own resonance, its own frequencies. Part of this project is finding those hidden resonances and tuning them to the chakras of our bodies, to help promote healing of the body and mind through sound vibration. It’s a lot like what I feel when I play the didgeridoo. I capture these everyday frequencies and transform them into something much larger, in hopes of helping to heal the world by bringing a little more awareness to our everyday lives.

I’m still not sure exactly where these sounds will take me, and that’s the beauty of it: discovery and new perspectives. Maybe next time you’ll stop to notice the leaves rustling in the wind, or the hum of a coffee grinder and the teeny tiny springs you can hear amongst its gigantic roar.

That’s why I need volunteers. Everyone sounds different: the way you tap, swirl or slide is your own, so every session brings something new. Depending on the sound I’m chasing at the moment, I’ll ask you to help me search for it.

How I work

I want to be 100% open and honest about what we’re doing, so nobody is ever surprised at the table. You choose what can be in the shot before we meet, and you can say “skip” anytime. The one-page release spells out how the recordings are used, and you can read it before you come.