How can I design a loudspeaker setup in an exhibition space where the speakers enter into a dialogue with each other, and within which the visitor chooses his/her own route through the sound universe?
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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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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.
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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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.
Sound- and Listenwalk during the international conference ‘The Role and Positioning of Sounds and Sounding Arts in Public Urban Environments’ on the occasion of the new Chair ‘Auditive Culture’ at Leiden University held by professor Marcel Cobussen.
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On May 30: Interview (in Dutch) by Tracy Metz during her monthly Talkshow ‘Stadsleven’ (Citylife) featuring the theme ‘Hidden City’.
My talk is about the sonic aspects of China’s immense globalization. Start Interview: 1h15m10
‘Sound is Sight’ is my audiovisual blog that I wrote for the website of ‘Stadsleven’ (for english go to page 2). Take your earphone and listen here to the streetlife of Amsterdam 2016, Chengdu China 1986 and 2015.
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How do I approach the sound environment that is all around me?
I was invited to be an ‘inspirational speaker’ at the ‘From sound to timbre’ Symposium organised by the →
2-2-2016 BLOG: LISTENING TO CHINA 1986 and 2015 Listening live to China’s globalization, to its fastest and most extensive urban development ever with an interval of 29 years was an overwhelming experience. Right now I have available 2 sound files of…
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