Report of my binaural Omniwave experiment on China’s globalization for the STEIM Project Blog.
My contribution to The Great Dutch Art Calendar of Tichris Publishers for 2018 is a photograph and an observation during my sound research into the globalization of urban China 1986 – 2015. Titled – ‘Time Lapse China’. In a max of 60 words I talk about traces of humanization of urban sound in China:
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Visitors (including a variety of students from different Art Institutes) were walking or sitting in a sound-field, evoked by two ‘virtual’ speakers, mixed with mono sounds of several mini- speakers.
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the ‘virtual’ speaker, the Omniwave, explained by the inventor, Leo de Klerk (photo Cilia Erens)
Public Pilot ‘Time Lapse China’
November 1-4 in STEIM + during the Museum Night of STEIM and De Appel Arts Centre.
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I had to learn to walk again.
I had this feeling, when at the end of June I started work with the audiofiles which are going to form the basis of Time Lapse China. As if I were jumping, stepping from one discipline into another.
‘Transmitting an experience’ is one of the 5 modules of Studio STEIM: Starting from point zero
200 cubic meters of soundspace and 15 loudspeakers are available, from minimonospeakers to Omniwaves (see link to Iphone movie).
A first reaction of an ex sound walker: ‘… headphones bring me to China and loudspeakers are bringing China to where I am right now…’
But how will I go on with that?
to be continued
After some 30 years of pioneering the concept of the soundwalk for a headphone wearing audience I want to take a next step in my development as a sound artist. This is my first blog about a for me brand new research in the next couple of months.
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For a survey of scientist Jeroen de Vos about ‘spectrality’ I contributed three binaural recordings.
Publication of his article including recordings in Leonardo, an academic journal published by MIT Press (Volume 26 2016).
Abstract:
If space can be perceived through sound, then recording and playback techniques allow capturing a unique spatial moment for later retrieval. The notion of spectrality as the invisible visible can be used to explain the embodiment of an auditive momentum in a space that is ultimately absent.
I just received a ‘Development Budget’ by the AFK to do research on how to develop an exhibition-context for ‘Time Lapse China’ (a binaural sound research on the globalization of urban China 1986-2015).
For me is this research a first: a development from headphone- to loudspeaker-presentations.
Relax tonight during the Rotterdam Museum Night in a 3D soundscape played through ‘sound arms’ designed for The Rotterdam Eye Hospital. My work (part of the art collection of the hospital) was put into service in 2008 in order to…
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