2 Comments Port Vell, Barcelona
Walking in Port Vell, Barcelona. May 2006.
(Binaural sound, better on headphones).
Comment North Sea at Scheveningen
listen at radio aporee
photos of the area
Location: Scheveningen - The Hague, NL
Date: March 2009
Mics/Recorder: Rode NT-4 + 2x DPA 4060 / Fostex FR-2LE
Comment walking listeners
What? What are you talking about? the Sony Walkman has done more to change human perception than any virtual reality gadget. I can´t remember any technological experience since that was quite so wonderful as being able to take music and move it through landscapes and architecture.
- William Gibson, Time out, 6 Oct. 1993: 49
The World According to Sound. Investigating the World of Walkman Users
Michael Bull, New Media & Society, Vol. 3, No. 2, 179-197 (2001)
The Sonic Composition of the City
Jean-Paul Thibaud, The Auditory Culture Reader (2003)
Walkman cumple 30 años @ The Ratzinger Times (I, II, III y IV)
Headphones: Sound Without Space (Aair.fm, 2009)
Comment concert @ STEIM [Amsterdam]
Participating in a concert at STEIM with a set based based on my recent phonography work, including sounds recorded in Portugal, Spain, The Hague and Berlin.
Comment emergent patterns
ER. Your work often deals with the microscopic world around us and the complex forms and patterns in the natural world. Can you talk about these emergent patterns and how it intersects your own work?
JG. When I talk about emergent patterns, I’m mainly referring to the meshing together of forces in the natural world, the effects they have and how we perceive this. In one sense it is the study of complexity, looking at processes we have little understanding of and not trying to rationalize it so much as be absorbed by it, to really sense nature rather than analyse it. This is where my view differs from science in that the value of nature here is not in what we can abstract and isolate but what generates forms of meaning, particularly in a cultural sense. So the “art” here is in using sound and its properties as a medium of translation for finding significance in processes that give rise to the emergent patterns around us. Most of this happens on the microscopic level or beyond what we can normally perceive, but if we employ tools and techniques, our attention can be sharpened allowing us to develop new forms of sensitivity, aesthetic relations and ideally creative impulses. This is a good base from which to start and from here we can go into great detail about the specifics of this process and what it means.
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John Grzinich interviewed by Mark Peter Wright in
EAR ROOM # 4 | re-sounding dialogues across the globe (2009/10/01)
Comment Leitza
Recorded in Leitza, in the province of Navarra. Sunday morning after the first night of the local festivities.
Waking up with the sounds of the hundreds of glass bottles accumulated while some people were actually still getting home after a long night.
Thanks to our hosts Mikel and Laura for their hospitality in our short visit to such a beautiful place.
Location: Leitza, Navarra, ES
Date/Time: 9/08/2009 - 9:00h
Mic/Recorder: 2x Aevox Classic MKII / HiMD Sony MZ-RH1
Comment Ribeira seagulls
listen/download at freesound.org
Location: Ribeira, Porto (Portugal)
Date/Time: 15/07/2009 - 20:15h
Mic/Recorder: Soundman OKM II / HiMD Sony MZ-RH1
