‘The Sound of Life’ proposes an auditory experience of collective dreams, a place of healing and of learning from nature. Through its delicate gesture of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), its filtration to the purest seeks to attend one to the fundamental that has always been present - the breath of Tane, guiding one how to adapt to change.

The timber boxes are inspired by the sound visualisation of sea waves. Its weaving inbetween the ‘railway beams’ alongside the soothing sound of sea waves from the scanned QR code among the towering landscape of retails, offices and apartments in Britomart, invites one to question and ponder. Raising awareness around the concerns of sea-level rising behind the gentle melody.

As the Nohonga finds itself at the Brick Bay sculptural trail, the timber boxes’ metamorphosis into ‘insect hotels’ invite insects and little creatures to inhabit. Overtime, the Nohonga that is once silenced with the removal of QR code, adapts and begins to play its own symphony of buzzing and chirping. ‘The Sound of Life’ is a shared haven for the children of Tane, a guidance that we all breathe and live together too as tamariki of Tane.