OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
"LISTEN"
Manila's Soundscape: An Exploratory Sound Walk and Audio Workshop
"Why limit listening to the concert hall? Instead of bringing [street]
sounds into the hall, why not simply take the audience outside?"
-- Max Neuhaus
In the 1960s, the legendary American percussionist Max Neuhaus
pioneered the "sound walk" -- a listening tour of an urban soundscape
in which the audience appreciates the ambient sounds of a city
environment in the same way that they would absorb a concert
performance.
On July 16, we will be doing a sound walk under the direction of
Samuel Andre, a French sound artist/video artist. On our walk,
participants will listen to the ambient sounds of Manila. They may
carry recording equipment and capture the sounds that they encounter.
The sound walk will be followed by a group listening session. Then
Samuel Andre will conduct an interactive workshop on sound ecology and
field recordings. The workshop will be capped by an impromptu
"orchestral" performance by the participants.
Venue: Secret Fresh Gallery (2nd floor), RONAC Art Center, Ortigas Avenue, San Juan City
Schedule:
14:00 Meeting place at Secret Fresh, RONAC
14:30-17:00 -sound walk and field recording
17:00-17:30 -break
17:30-18:30 -culminating activity at Secret Fresh Gallery
What to Bring: Pen and paper, any portable audio recording device (i.e. iphones, cellphones with recording capabilities, tape recorders, etc)
What will be Provided: binaural microphones (i.e. RODE NT4) and contact microphones
TO PARTICIPATE please CONTACT:
Oz Mendoza, +639274408474
or email: sabawmediahub@gmail.com
THIS IS A FREE EVENT, BUT DONATIONS ARE REQUESTED.
ALL DONATIONS WILL GO TO THE ARTIST.
Additional Info:
About the Artist
Born in 1978, self-taught sound artist & video artist, currently
traveling. After training in Mathematics and Cognitive Sciences and
research on musical interfaces, he developed a project around the
sound under the name of ieva and started to compose a music like
imaginary journey or short stories. Since 2 years ago he started to
practice improvisation multicast using multi layered field recordings
that are overlayed creating an intense and emotionally universe
that you pass through as a waking dream, like a cinema for ear.
He also directed several experimental films. After an
initial approach, abstract and sensitive, playing on the body
of the digital image (pixelization, compression ...). He
developed his approach in films more figurative combining diary and
man's relationship to nature.
Has worked with various artists: dancers, composers, videographers and instrumentalists. His musical collaboration are
based on improvisation, preferring the live performance to the production on fixed format.
He lived the last year in Kyoto, where he performed about 30 times, with about half in multicast 4 channels and organized
headphones series shows called Solaris.
To browse : www.ieva-li.net
To listen : http://ieva.bandcamp.com/track/cafe-independants-live-6-vril-2010
Solaris pictures : http://www.flickr.com/photos/71231532@N00/collections/72157626455732367/
To learn more about sound walks, we invite you to review this page
about the work of Max Neuhaus:
http://www.max-neuhaus.info/soundworks/vectors/walks/
What is sound/audio ecology?
Acoustic ecology, sometimes called ecoacoustics or soundscape studies, is the relationship, mediated through sound, between living beings and their environment. [wikipedia]
What are field recordings?
Field recording or phonography is the term used for the production of audio recordings made in an outdoor environment, outside of a studio. Field recordings have been used in the creation of avant-garde, musique concrète, experimental, and ambient works of music. The World Soundscape Project -- founded by the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer in the late 1960s -- studies the acoustic ecology of specific locations through the use of field recordings. Today, field recordings can frequently be heard in film soundtracks, video games, and audio effects. [wikipedia]
Special thanks to:
Secret Fresh
Ronac Art Center
ICX Parties x Go Go Carabao
Organized by SABAW Media Art Kitchen