4AM / 4PM

At the summer solstice (midsummer), four microphones are placed at the centre of each side of Hampton Lido, a public outdoor swimming pool in south-west London. The microphones are connected to two field recording devices that take two parallel stereo recordings (of varying lengths) once at 4pm and again at 4am. The recordings are then pressed to two vinyl dubplates (one-off pressings of sound to vinyl record). In a gallery, four hifi speakers are placed at distances equal to the distance between the microphones. Two record players are connected via a DJ mixer playing the recordings. Initially matching recordings are played in sync, creating a ghost soundscape in the otherwise empty space. Records then begin to be switched at random intervals, blending the sounds of night and day or desynchronising the quadraphonic recordings.