01. Pressed Soundscapes: Rubbings from Industrial Wetlands
This is an early visual archive of Ecosound Notation generated during the first phase of
fieldwork at the wetlands in London. It documents the sites’ current condition as post-
industrial wetlands, shaped by the industrial remnants of their reservoir infrastructure and
ongoing processes of ecological restoration.
The artist Do Ho Suh’s rubbing method, often described as an embodied act of
memorialisation and translation, reveals the emotional and spatial imprints of architectural
environments. Similarly, my use of rubbing in the wetlands functions as an ecological and
material method of recording environmental traces, capturing the textures of industrial
intervention, nonhuman activity and ecological tension. These traces form the basis of
symbolic extraction in Ecosound Notation, transforming site-specific surfaces into proto-
symbols that later re-enter the 'sound–symbol–sound' cycle.
This is the visual and sonic archive of Ecosound Notation developed during fieldwork at the
Yellow River Delta Wetlands. It documents the region’s hybrid condition as a heavily industrialised
wetland shaped by decades of petroleum extraction, where the accumulated traces of multiple
generations of oil work meet the shifting boundary between urban development and wild industrial
landscape.
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