Acoustic map update: Bratislava
(from One A Day Photograph)
I have finally got around to updating the acoustic map with recordings made during my visit to Slovakia last year. The following are a selection of these recordings, as I wanted to present some with a little bit of contextual information not supplied on the map. As you will see, most of the recordings are along, over, and in, the Danube river, as I spent the majority of my time recording here for this project. As ever, headphones are recommended.
Brussels, October 2011
At the end of October, I was invited back to Brussels by Bains Connective, an experimental arts laboratory who coordinate and support a fascinating array of artistic practices.
Bratislava, 3-15 September 2011
I spent almost half of September in Bratislava, Slovakia, working on 3 different projects. Firstly, I produced a sound installation as part of a group exhibition entitled ‘Wind and Time’ at ANSIL Gallery (details here). Secondly, I helped to run a week-long art radio project (details here), and thirdly I created an audio tour for the Slovak National Gallery (details here).
TIK Art Radio Days, Bratislava, 6-11 September 2011
Next week I am off to Bratislava to help run an experimental radio station (see the poster above for details, and visit here).
The radio stream can be heard here. If you use twitter, you can follow the project here.
During the week I will have a 15 minute sound piece installed at ASIL Gallery (details here).
After this, I will be spending a few days at the Slovak National Gallery to create sound interpretations of some paintings and photographs produced on the banks of the Danube River.
Chris Watson interview
Back in April myself and Michael Gallagher hosted natural history sound recordist Chris Watson for a couple of days here in Edinburgh. Below is a five minute documentary piece Michael and I produced, based on interviews and sound recordings made during a workshop with Chris along the North Berwick coast.
My friends over at the TimeInventorsKabinet have put out a call for participation in a radio art project. From the blurb:
COL-ME (Bratislava, Slovakia) invites radio makers, collectives and radio stations to take part in the making of a temporary radio station scheduled according to wind-time – our very own TIK Radio, to be transmitting over the TIK Radiodays from the 6th – 11th of September 2011.
More information here.
AIR/EAR radio installation, Argentina
More information here
Brussels, 16-19 June 2011
Following on from my trip to Croatia in May, I was invited to Brussels by Annemie Maes, a multimedia artist and curator based at okno. Okno are one of the principle organizations behind the Time Inventors’ Kabinet project, which the Croatia trip formed a part of. I gave a lecture on urban ecological restoration (based on my PhD research), and led a workshop on soundwalks (more information on the latter here).
North Croatia, 16-21 May 2011
For a week in May, I was invited to Marija Bistrica in north Croatia to run a workshop on soundwalking methods. Eight artists attended the workshop from Austria, Slovakia, and Croatia, with the aim of producing a soundwalk piece based on original recordings from the Peasant’s Revolt Museum in Gornja Stubica (information on the 16th Century revolt can be found here).
The workshop was part of a larger pan-European project called the Time Inventors’ Kabinet, which is focused on ecology, media art, and perceptions of time.
fromZtoA interview with Ian Rawes
Edward Alexander who runs fromZtoA, contacted me about contributing to an interview with Ian Rawes from the London Sound Survey. I was away in Croatia (recordings from that visit coming soon) when the interview took place, but a couple of my questions got asked. The responses from Ian were very interesting, especially, I thought, his views on sound as an educational/ communicative tool:
“As visual media becomes more immersive and addictive, a reaction against it might become more common in education, trying to remind children that they have senses other than vision which are also worth exploring beyond speech and familiar musical genres. Soundmaps might play a role in that, since they can be compiled in a collaborative way, and they don’t dispense with vision, but place it in a supporting rather than dominating role.”
Read the full interview here.
