The Elephant’s Raveyard is a soundscape composed using a collection of augmented sounds lifted from field recordings made underneath The Elephant Building, exploring feelings of loss around crumbling modern relics. It’s a work-in-progress, being edited and evolving as more field recordings are made and sounds chosen, each iteration being played back underneath The Elephant to see how it interacts with that space.
The Elephant Building was part of Coventry Sports and Leisure Centre, built in 1976 as an add-on to Coventry Baths. It was designed by Terence Gregory and Harry Noble, part of Coventry City Council’s architect’s department, as an abstracted elephant form. Its distinctive grey body comes from the zinc panels used as cladding.
