Sun Run Sun
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project for the Artist in Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Media Arts Amsterdam, November 2007 - March 2008
Sun Run Sun investigates the split between the embodied experience of location and the calculated data of position. A series of portable personal 'instruments', currently under development, transform satellite data directly into a sonic composition. This composition constantly varies in response to the changing location of the player as they move through their physical environment. The player/navigator's experience of their own locational shifts are augmented by corresponding shifts in the electronic soundscape, as it is calculated/performed in real-time and played via headphones. Sun Run Sun explores the individual experience of current location technologies through a personal experience of sound. It seeks to (re)establish a sense of personal connectedness to one's environment, and to (re)negotiate this through an investigation into old, new, future and animal navigation using sound. http://sunrunsun.nimk.nl
"... the landscape is now an acoustic chamber ..."
project for the Fellowship at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 2006
"... the landscape is now an acoustic chamber ..." (working title) is an idea to treat sound in relation to technologies of navigation and environmental information, questioning our shifting relationship with the physical environment in an age of technological contact. How do we now find our way, recognise our territory, get lost? Where is sound in this? If I treat sound and instrument as exocentric from the body, existing within our fragmented and dissolving idea of space and location, maybe I can find a way to consider site as an instrument and simultaneously a score. If one could turn an acoustic chamber inside-out, like a sock, one could confront the acoustic resonance of landscape. Our ultra-portable technologies and our ensuing mobility within an orbiting infrastructure, is the enclosure within which the soundscape resonates.
Taking Soundings
preview wednesday 8 november 2006 19:00 at the klanglabor KHM Cologne
Taking Soundings is a series of pieces that are emerging from the investigation into landscape and navigation. Taking soundings is a traditional technique of determining the shape and depth of the sea or river-bed by means of a lead and line, and I find an obvious continuity in the gathering of information from satellites via a GPS receiver. Taking soundings of ones position relative to satellites orbiting the earth rather than relative to ones immediate environment, strikes me as a kind of blind guidance, which encourages feelings of security or insecurity. Certainly this giving up of something of ones own intentions and perceptions, being taken by the hand as it were, has parallels with an experience of art. My intentions, rather than taking away peoples ability to act, is to encourage an unfolding of experience, a drift.
trace of a boat on anchor
trace from inside the klanglabor