What is: In 26 towns of Central America a 150 feet tall steel Christmas tree with sounds and lights is installed in order to play a daily 11 minutes multisensory show for people all around.
Amazing idea: 6 Spectr Audio SPX1538 (2-way/15-inch) loudspeakers are attached to the tree’s structure at a height of 20 feet, in order to create a 360-degree soundscape with a power of 95 dB for people staying at a distance of 75 feet.
Full story: ProSound Web
Project: Dimensions: Adventures in the Multiverse
Full story: Wired
Useful concepts: Generative music, Soundscape
Sound designers do it different, we all know that. And Italians love football, it’s another dogma that we do not doubt upon.
But when I met Davide Tidoni and his project called The Sound of Normalization I thought that, well…this was really a different way to love football and work with sound at the same time. I wanted to know more about it and I’m sure you want to know more, too….
Since 2002 Davide is investigating the football supporters subculture, dominated by the use of sound as a real weapon. He documented all his work recording the football chants and organized sounds during football matches and here what he told us about his amazing field recording experience.
Live!iXem 2010
Another good news for all the sound professionals who are interested in field recordings: our friends Matteo Milani & Federico Placidi from U.S.O. Project and the italian musician Domenico Sciajno organized Movement of acoustic images, a workshop curated by Fabio Orsi and Alessandro Massobrio, which will be held in Milan (Italy) from 29th to 30th October 2010, during the 7th edition of Live!iXem, an international festival of music, mixed media and experimental electronic art, promoted by AntiTesi.
We had a friendly email exchange with Matteo, Federico, Domenico, Fabio and Alessandro in order to have some more information on the festival and the workshop.
The 2011 edition of the International Soundscape Symposium will take place in May in the wonderful frame of Tempo Reale @Villa Strozzi, Florence. The symposium will be held by Tempo Reale and the Forum Klanglandschaft together with the contemporary art centre EX3. The call is open for soundart works and scientific papers and the deadline is 30th of October. The complete call is downloadable on the Tempo Reale website.
Orecchio alla Terra is the first european edition of Ear to earth, the festival of sound-art, video-art, music and ecology of New York, USA.
The festival will held in Pesaro and Urbino, 25 – 27 June, 2010, Italy, and is organized by the Conservatorio Statale di Musica G. Rossini, in collaboration with the Electronic Music Foundation (New York, USA) and the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema (Pesaro, Italy).
The program is very interesting and you can read it here.
SonorApuliae / Taranto Sonora is a workshop with the aimt to build an happening based on the sounds of the old town of Taranto (Italy), from 11th august to 17th august 2010.
The project will mix sound design, musical experimentation and active citizenship in order to produce a sound archive online (sound cards) of the town and a final performance.
The entry form must be completed in all fields and sent via email no later than the deadline of July 20 2010 at the following email address: asss.lablib@yahoo.it.
The fee for the workshop is EUR 100,00. The maximum number of members is 35. For any kind of informations you can write to: ass.lablib@yahoo.it. For specific informations about the workshop and/or to collaborate: +39 349/5012612 or use the skype contact below: francesco_giannico.
SonorApuliae is promoted by the Laboratory of Ecology of Sound part of the LAB LIB Association.
Johan Primero and the Citroën 2CV at the FC Walvisch studios. Photo by Marcel Bultman
We’re living very strange days: sound professionals are very tough people, they know their work sometimes could be very hard, like recording sound underwater, following crazy seals vocals or jumping inside a very very noisy car.
Everything starts with Johan Primero, Johan Kramer‘s new movie, an extraordinary story of love and devotion to the world of football. In few words: Johan Puig is a 42 years-old man who drives his car 50 times a day around the stadium of FC Barcelona, in order to bring luck to his loved spanish club. And what a big surprise: Johan’s home is the sexy & vintage Citroën 2CV.
The entire movie is based on the relationship between the actors and the car, so we can imagine what kind of problems were born when designing the whole soundscape. The solution was around the corner: to bring the car to the recording studio!
Johan Kramer and his assistant Andreas Pasvantis decided to make a short film about this extraordinary situation, to document the great work of sound design made for the movie. The video was directed, filmed and edited by Andreas himself.
The company which accepted this challenge is FC Walvisch, a sound studio of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), specialized in making sound and music for commercials, films, music videos, games and online media.
The international festival will take place in Milan (Italy) from the 27th to th 29th of May. Take a look in particular to the live performance and sound installation Audioscan, a soundscape project by Giorgio Sancristoforo, dedicated to the city of Milan and produced by Agon. And do not miss The Books on Friday 28.
On Tuesday the 18th at 8 p.m. @ Neon Campobase, via Zanardi 2/5 Bologna (Italy), the electroacoustic music guru and soundscape researcher Albert Mayr will present his recent works on his non orthodox concept of time design. We do not have the time we are in the time and The roundtable will involve the public in a collective performance which aims to unveil our obsessive relationship with time in the contemporary society. The moderator of this event is Silvia Bordini, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.
Partners: Neon Campobase, Concrete19.10, 451frammentisonori.
Free admittance.