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| VIOLENT THINGS By Melinda Fries In the Fall of 2002 I asked 27 people: "What is the most violent thing you've ever done?" They generously answered and the result is the "Violent Things" CD: a minor expedition into the various definitions and delineations of what is considered violent. During Sound Canopy, 16 stories from the CD will be presented. violence1.mp3 (3.2m) violence2.mp3 (8.5m) violence3.mp3 (3.6m) www.ausgang.com |
EINDHOVIA By Iain Mott Eindhovia is a composition derived from a sound installation Summoned Voices I created with designer Marc Raszewski in Eindhoven, Netherlands early in 2003. The piece involved of a series of networked “door” installations. Each consisted of a cabinet with a large wooden door, an intercom unit, loudspeakers and a computer. Visitors to the exhibition left messages at each installation, speaking, singing or making sounds into the intercom. Their recording was stored centrally and analysed by the computer system to create an immediate playback using fragments of speech from a database of all prior recordings. The analysis was used do find complementary sounds, ones that could replace or be overlayed with sounds in the recording. Summoned Voices was created to produce a poetic transcript of the expression of individuals at the exhibition and a means for people to communicate with past events. Well over 6000 recordings were captured during the exhibition along with the computer mediated responses to each. These sounds were in turn used to create Eindhovia and the piece serves as a record of the installation and a portrait of the people of Eindhoven. Visitors to the exhibition engaged creatively and enthusiastically with the work and this shows in Eindhovia. Going well beyond shy “hellos”, people sang songs, played walkmans and mobile phones (cell phones), vocalised, laughed, conspired, gossiped and cursed. There’s a mixture of languages in the composition, most in Dutch and English, but you can also hear some French, Polish and Japanese. This soundscape at the Sound Canopy in Chicago offers a window to parallel place—a funnelled stream of urban noise, playful banter and the shrieks and squeaks of over-sexed communication devises. Special thanks to Marc Fischer, Marc Raszewski, Padmini Sebastian and Adriaan Stellingwerff. Summoned Voices was assisted by the New Media Arts Fund of the Australia Council, the Federal Government's arts funding and advisory body. The Studium Generale of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven assisted the final realisation at the exhibition Art In Output. Technical note: This composition utilised the sound synthesis language Pd by Miller Puckette, my own software and the PostgreSQL database on Linux computers. Melbourne, December 2003 EindhoviaExcerpt.mp3 www.reverberant.com |
DAVE'S STORIES By Dave Whitman Cheesecake_Factory.mp3 (1.5m) Description of Dave's contribution |