[Nettime-nl] [OKNO] Transnational Ecologies: Sounds Travel

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>
Thursday may 10, between 14.00 and 15.00 CET
okno/brussels and okno/bratislava are participating in the networked 
performance:


> Transnational Ecologies 1: Sounds Travel

> A realisation of Alvin Lucier's Quasimodo the Great Lover (1970)
>
> by Laura Cameron and Matt Rogalsky in Edinburgh, Scotland
>
>
>
> Produced with support from the Institute of Geography at the 
> University of Edinburgh, 
> the Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of 
> Glasgow,
> the Royal Scottish Geographical Society,
> and the collaboration of networked sites worldwide.

> NETWORKED PERFORMANCE: 1400-1500 CET, THURSDAY MAY 10 
> WITH THE COLLABORATION OF SITES WORLDWIDE
>
> AUDIO STREAMS  ACTIVE MAY 10
> END OF NETWORK-STREAM ::
> http://giss.tv:8000/transnational.mp3

> MIDWAY NETWORK-STREAMS ::
> http://stream.okno.be:8000/transnational-brussels.m3u
> http://stream.okno.be:8000/bratislava.m3u
	
>

> Alvin Lucier’s 1970 composition Quasimodo the Great Lover engages with 
> bioacoustics, particularly the sounds of the humpback whale, and its 
> ability to communicate great distances underwater. Lucier's poetic 
> text score is “for any person who wishes to send sounds over long 
> distances through air, water, ice, metal, stone, or any other 
> sound-carrying medium, using the sounds to capture and carry to 
> listeners far away the acoustic characteristics of the environments 
> through which they travel.”
>
> The score describes how a realisation of the piece may be made, giving 
> wide scope for individual interpretation. At the core of the piece is 
> the idea that a live performance is made using “one or more 
> microphone-amplifier-loudspeaker systems to lengthen the distance over 
> which the sounds may be sent.” For any number of widely separated 
> spaces, sound is transmitted from one space to the next. Lucier 
> describes, for instance, using “the spaces of a three-story American 
> high school … connected by a four-stage system in which the 
> performer’s first stage is placed as far from the listeners’ last 
> stage as possible and in which the microphone-amplifiers of each stage 
> are placed as far as possible from their respective loudspeakers.” 
>
> In this way, the sounds which are transmitted acquire the acoustic 
> colouration of each space through which they pass—an effect which 
> Lucier explored beautifully in his I am sitting in a room (1969) (a 
> link to the first release on vinyl of this piece, as well as a radio 
> documentary about Lucier, may be found at www.ubu.com) . In our 
> realisation, sounds are passed from site to site via internet audio 
> streams. The streaming URL above allows the public to listen in to the 
> end of the chain.
>
> Lucier describes that “the music of the humpback whale, Megaptera 
> novaeangliae of the family Baleanopteridae” is to be used as a model 
> for composition of “a repertory of simple sound events such as single 
> pitches of short or long duration, simultaneities of various 
> densities, upward and downward sweeps, and sounds with different 
> envelope shapes … accelerating or decelerating pulse trains, upward 
> sweeps followed by tones of short duration, or motives seemingly modal 
> in character.” In our performance we approach the character of 
> whalesong through the electronic manipulation of birdsong, in a nod to 
> another layer of biocommunication, referencing the migratory habits of 
> bird species which, like whales, travel great distances without regard 
> for borders (thus the title Transnational Ecologies).
>
> more information : www.mrogalsky.net/transnational
>
> Collaborating sites: 

> Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
> Eric Laurier • Nina Morris
> Live performance by Laura Cameron / Matt Rogalsky
>
> Department of Geographical and Earth Sciences / School of Music, 
> University of Glasgow, Scotland
> Hayden Lorimer • Rhian Thomas • Martin Dixon
>
> Electroacoustic Music Studios/School of Music, University of East 
> Anglia, Norwich England
> Simon Waters • Jason Dixon
>
> The Music Centre, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield England
> Dan Halford • Rob Godman
>
> Okno/So-on, Brussels Belgium
> Guy De Bièvre • Annemie Maes

> Okno/Menschen Haben Krizen, Bratislava Slovakia
> Guy Van Belle • Barbara Huber

> School of Music, Queen's University, Kingston Canada
> Kristi Allik • Mike Cassells
>
> Music Department, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT USA
> David Jensenius • Philip Schulze
>
> Western Front, Vancouver Canada
> Benjamin Rogalsky
>
> Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth Australia
> Cat Hope
>
> <>TAG, The Hague, Netherlands
> Anne Wellmer • Hicham Khalidi • Keir Neuringer
>
>
>
> image at top of page: humpback whale global migratory patterns
> (adapted from http://www.omplace.com/omsites/discover/HUMP/humpm.html )
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