Hyperterrestrial [soundscape composition release]
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AUDIO RELEASE
Hyperterrestrial is the first dedicated release of soundscape and electroacoustic work by Isobel Anderson, bringing together over a decade of practice into a single, immersive listening experience. Spanning compositions created between 2014 and 2025, the album navigates distorted, reimagined and deliberately unreliable encounters with place.
Drawing on site-specific recordings from the Isle of Harris, Dungeness and the River Ouse, Anderson weaves spoken voice, environmental sound and electroacoustic processing into richly layered works that blur the boundaries between documentation and invention. Across the three extended compositions, place is not presented as fixed or knowable, but as something unstable, shaped as much by memory, imagination and bodily experience as by geography itself.
At its core, Hyperterrestrial is an exploration of listening as a subjective act. Themes of grief, illness and embodiment move through the work, alongside questions of artistic pilgrimage, the fetishisation of landscape, and the inherent unreliability of field recording. Voice operates simultaneously as narrator, environment and instrument, dissolving distinctions between inner and outer worlds.
Rather than offering clear representations, Hyperterrestrial invites the listener into a space where perception is fluid, where environments are felt as much as they are heard, and where the act of listening becomes a process of continual reimagining.
Recorded, composed, mixed and mastered by Isobel Anderson. © all rights reserved.
