origin
About klaxonomy
a field guide to alarms
klaxonomy is a field guide to alarms.
Every sound here is played by hand, on instruments engineered by hand: steel, solder and source code, mechanisms cut and wired for one purpose. Nothing on these recordings came out of a box.
A klaxon is a sound built to be heard over everything else. Here each one is taken apart, measured and filed by its kind: by pressure, by pitch, by how far it carries and by what it warns of.
The research goes down past where the light gives out, into the abyss, and keeps whatever still sounds at that depth.
field notes
- designation
- klaxonomy
- origin
- below the surface
- instruments
- engineered by hand: machined, wired, coded
- medium
- experimental · electronic · mechanical
- method
- sonic research at depth
- transmissions
- 164 so far · 795 minutes of sound
- first surfaced
- October 2026
- most visited key
- 7A · D minor
- resting pulse
- 132 bpm
- status
- transmitting
Come down.