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The Audio Scientist is my MA Final Project, it is a combination of film, motion graphics, animation, and model making. The project originated from research into the thinking and application, of the relationship between sound and image, how one could almost respond to the other to reveal a narrative. I started to look for a base to bring these two factors together. Derelict buildings have always fascinated me. As they sit uncomfortably amongst strangers, but always having a story to tell. 109-111 Redchurch Street was discovered quite by accident and I felt drawn to it, and its surrounding areas. Such a popular and highly desirable part of London (just at the top of Brick Lane) but yet it stands empty, almost looking down at its fashionable neighbours. I had to find out more about this building, and what intriguing whispers of time gone-by filled the empty rooms within. This particular area of East London is teaming with history, its people the working oil to the powerful machine that was London and the British Empire. I focused my research towards the late Victorian era of around about 1890. These were groundbreaking times in science, and our understanding and control of the once mystical and magical dimension of sound. Digging through the census I discovered with much enthusiasm that at that point in time the basement and ground floor were run as a chemist, with the Pharmacist and his family occupying the living quarters above. The building, the lives that live within it, and organic life that lived outside it are all fuelled and driven to evolve, by the control and distortion of sound.