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The National Gallery is collaborating with Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication on 'Transcriptions: Sound’, an innovative new project which involves sound design students producing a three-minute response to a painting of their choice in the Gallery's collection.

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From the sound artist:

From a sound designer's point of view this haunting image provides wide scope for creative work. I think it has a bleak, ominous atmosphere, and I tried to capture this with a combination of deep synthesised drones, recordings of wind and the movement of trees, along with the occasional distant sound of a child. But I am drawn to the woman in the foreground. I find that no matter where I look in the painting, she catches my eye. The piano music represents this solitary figure.

Ewan Henesy