[Microsound-announce] performance - aug 23 - NY

[ben]

hello everyone,
upcoming performance this month with guest Gilles Aubry from Berlin.
next phonographers meeting is sept 30 in the 6&B Garden, NYC.
hope to see you and keep in touch,
ben


http://seasonalbk.net/calendar/20070823/

august 23 2007
issue project room - brooklyn, ny

set 1: Scott Smallwood, Sawako, Seth Cluett, Civyiu Kkliu, and Ben Owen

set 2: Gilles Aubry

issue project room  (new location)
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/


set 1: NY Phonographers Meeting II, 2007
with Scott Smallwood, Sawako, Seth Cluett, civyiu kkliu, and Ben Owen
The NY Phonographers Meeting's are a series of annual concert's  
presenting un-processed or raw location and field recordings in a  
collaborative immersive listening environment.


set 2: Gilles Aubry
Gilles Aubry is a Swiss sound artist & musician based in Berlin since  
2002.
His work at the crossroad of improvisation, installation and  
performance privileges the use of field recordings, surround sound  
and random processes.
Gilles will present a solo set of his ongoing work Berlin Backyards

Berlin Backyards – 2007
Berlin Backyards is a sound piece based on field recordings of  
several backyards made in Berlin during the winter 2006. The live  
version of the piece uses improvisation and random processes to  
create a dreamy soundscape at the border of space representation and  
musical abstraction.

In the urban context, backyards are interesting in that they are  
transitory spaces between private and public territories, home  
without a roof and enclosed streets at the same time. They are the  
place of various types of neighbouring interactions - from friendly  
greetings to perverse voyeurism – where a mutual process of visual  
and aural control is at work on the pretext of the community's  
security, a phenomenon illustrated in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie Rear  
Window.

In many cases, backyards reveal spatial surprises in contrast to what  
one could expect from the street point of view: a peaceful garden, a  
school playground, rich ornaments on the walls, big ventilation  
systems, piles of anonymous garbage or, typically in the case of  
Berlin, a huge empty no man’s land.

On the acoustic level, the backyard works as a resonance body for all  
present sounds especially the ones coming from the street. Loud  
traffic noises are being heard through indirect reflections, filtered  
and attenuated by the high walls surrounding the empty yard like in a  
reverberation chamber, while quieter sounds from activities within  
the yard or from the houses around are being amplified. Because of  
this balancing and smoothing effect, backyards soundscapes have a  
particularly high acoustic resolution and constitute interesting  
sound sources for recording.

Far from being spectacular, Berlin Backyards aims at attracting the  
attention of the listener on the sonic qualities of the space itself  
and on micro-variations in the peripheral sound environment.

http://www.soundimplant.com/gilaubry/BERLIN_BACKYARDS.html








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