Nov 2011 – 46 min
For Radio del Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, ES

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Tracklist:

Toshiya Tsunoda – Recorded Landscape: Pier – Untitled, 2003, Bremsstrahlung
Asher – Any Place Whatever – Audible Geography (VA), 2008, Room40
Gordon Hempton – Outback Billibong / Red Sky – Earth´s Morning Song, 1995, Miramar
Marc Namblard – Amours d’anoures et de rousserolles – Lorraine, ondes et lumières (Still water and lights), 2009, Chiff-Chaff
Steven Feld – Galo, Afternoon – Rainforest Soundwalks, 2001, Earth Ear
Bernie Krause – Amazon Days – Amazon Days, Amazon Nights, 1998, Miramar
Yannick Dauby – Babina Adenopleura – Olive Frog –
Songs Of The Frogs Of Taiwan Vol.1, 2009, Kalerne
Artificial Memory Trace – Akvatikinsekt 1, 2010, Psy_clone Records
Michael Prime – Rafflesia – Borneo, 2007, Mycophile Records
David Dunn – Chaos & The Emergent Mind Of The Pond – Angels And Insects, 1992, ¿What Next? Recordings
Eric La Casa – Spirale 3 – W2, 2010, Herbal International
Cheryl E. Leonard – Storm on Gamage Point – Chattermarks: Field Recordings from Palmer Station, Antarctica, 2010, Great Hoary Marmot Music
Lasse-Marc Riek – Habitats , 2010, 3LEAVES
Chris Watson & BJ Nilsen – SIGWX – Storm, 2006, Touch
Mark Peter Wright – Inanimate Life , 2010, 3LEAVES
Jana Winderen – Aquaculture – Energy Field, 2010, Touch
Douglas Quin – 77o 37′ S 165o 48′ E – Fathom, 2010, Taiga Records
Andreas Bick – Fire Pattern – Fire and Frost Pattern, 2010, Gruenrekorder
Bruno Moreigne – Drop Collisions Near 45°47’12N / 2°02’07E , 2011, Kaon
Tectonic – M6.5/M5.4, off the east coast of Honshu , Japan, Fri March 11, 2011, soundcloud.com/micahfrank
John Duncan – The Nazca Transmissions , 2009, Alga Marghen
Jacob Kirkegaard – Gaea – Eldfjall, 2005, Touch

WONDERWERP dedicates its second edition of the season to the theme “Phonography”
works by Pablo Sanz, Sara Pinheiro and Justin Bennett.
Thu 27/10/2011, 20.30h – Studio Loos – Den Haag, NL

WONDERWERP is a monthly series to present projects live. Whether they involve new music, electronic, acoustic, improvised, inter/multi-disciplinary, experimental, in progress, etc., works are always created by the performers. We find important that the contemporary scene is alive, and for that the involvement of audience, artists and places is absolutely necessary, wonderwerp is our contribution. Curated by Yolanda Uriz.

Listen to past editions at: 2010-2011, 2011-2012.

My underwater impressions from Den Haag have been awarded in the competition ‘Europa – Ein Klangpanorama’, an initiative by the Goethe Institute of Belgrade, Deutschlandradio Kultur, Radio Belgrade, the European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) Ars Acustica Group, the Institute for Music and Sound at the Centre for Art and Media Technology in Karlsruhe (ZKM) and Götz Naleppa.

The project brought me during one week (17-23 Oct) to ZKM´s Kubus in Karlsruhe, Germany, where together with other nine sound artists I participated in a workshop led by Thomas Köner, with the challenge of creating together an ‘European Sound Panorama’.

This intensive week culminated in a double concert at the Klangdom, a high tech spatialization system developed at ZKM. The event consisted in a first part featuring our individual pieces and a second with a group live performance.

This concert was part of the program of the festival AudioCulture which included a few other events celebrated during those days.

Participants: La Cosa Preziosa (Susanna Caprara), Katrinem (Katrin Emler), Francesco Giomi, Konrad Korabiewski, Stefan Maleševich, Etienne Noiseau, Tamer Fahri Özgönen, Softday (Mikael Fernstroem & Sean Taylor), and Ladislav Železný.

Preview podcast at Goethe-Institut.

Etienne Noiseau´s posts about the workshop on Beaubruit.net (in French): [1], [2] and [3].

Klangkunst Radio Show 28.10.11 – Ein Klangpanorama (1st part) [listen]

Klangkunst Radio Show 31.10.11 – Ein Klangpanorama (2nd part) [listen]

“Lange Nacht – 21.01.12″
A three-hour feature radio show by Götz Naleppa and Sandra Topan.

Huellas sonoras
A sound map for Sant Bartomeu del Grau, Barcelona
Inland- Campo Adentro residency program
Jul-Aug 2011

The project is based in the exploration of the sound environment of Sant Bartomeu del Grau, attempting to identify and capture its most singular and representative elements and to discover what remains unheard as well. The aim is to stimulate a more attentive listening and to promote awareness towards this intangible heritage as an integral part of the experience of a territory.

Developed in the context of a residency granted by Inland-Campo Adentro, with the support of the Arts Centre AcVic and Sant Bartomeu´s town hall. Inland-Campo Adentro is a project that examines the role of territories, geopolitics, culture and identity in the relationship between the city and the countryside in Spain today.

The result of the one month stay in Sant Bartomeu is an online interactive sound map which contains more than two hours and a half of sonic fragments spread in around seventy spots. It includes natural ambiences, labour activities, sonic impressions from the semi-abandoned huge factory to which the recent history of this town is linked to, everyday scenes or traditional music and celebrations. This cartography attempts to work as a possible portrait and as an abstraction at the same time, as document and trigger for imagination. It is part of the global sound mapping project Radio Aporee Maps and all the materials are available for reuse under copyleft.

Sound map of Sant Bartomeu del Grau
(headphones listening recommended)

In addition, the stay has been documented through a blog.

Exhibitions Inland-Campo Adentro:

- Presentation results of the residency program and simultaneous opening of the local exhibitions. MedialabPrado, Madrid, Sep 14, 2011.

- Local exhibition, Salon de Actos Caixa Manlleu, Sant Bartomeu del Grau, Sep 14-30, 2011.
(info booklet -in Catalán-)

- Group show, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Dec 13-14, 2011.

A short composition using some of the collected materials, created for its diffusion in the event at MediaLabPrado.

Group project ‘Broadcasting Den Haag’, initiated by Raviv Ganchrow at the Institute of Sonology, Den Haag, NL
Aired on framework radio #336, July 2011

Aeolian Transmission is based on the exploration of the action of wind. Since my arrival to The Netherlands and the discovery of its weather conditions, I started to pay more attention to the interactions of wind in the urban environment, including all sorts of architectural elements, objects and materials. Actually, wind itself seems to be a tricky phenomena to be captured using regular microphones, whose principle is usually based in a diaphragm which moves accordingly to air pressure variations, something which might easily result in distortion when wind blows on them. Therefore, I approached this force in a non-direct way as well, tapping into it as it flows through other mediums such as water and solids, attempting to reveal what cannot be heard with our bare ears.

Soundspheres is a new eduational initiative created in South Holland, targeted to primary and secondary education schools. It intends to promote awareness to the sonic environment, engaging the kids into field recording, sound mapping and composition with the collected sounds, using a mixer which is integrated in their online map.

I was invited to compose a one minute sound sphere using the same tools for their artists section, which is meant to work as example and inspiration for the students. It contains also sound spheres by Cilia Erens, Zeno van den Broek and Danny de Graan.

I chose to portrait an specific location near my own home. It is the Haagsche Bos, a forest/park in the center of Den Haag.

featured sound spheres

Shedding Light – Corrosia! as explorative sound space
Expo Corrosia! Ongehoord
18 Jun – 20 Aug @ Corrosia!, Markt 5, Almere Haven, Netherlands

The ArtScience interfaculty’s Spatial Interaction Lab has made an interactive sound environment in the gallery space of Corrosia! in Almere. The audience is challenged to explore the work that takes place in a completely dark space. Since it’s not possible to oversea the space as a whole it reveals itself primarily my means of sound. The audience gets torches in order to find their way in the space. In the mean time their light is being picked up by light sensors and used by the installation to react to the visitors. While the visitors are moving along, they play the space and are being challenged to explore the space further and further. Shedding Light is part of the exhibition Corrosia! Ongehoord.

Spatial Interaction Lab 2010/2011: Erfan Abdi, Joeri Bultheel, Pablo Castro, Juan Cantizzani, Bardo Frings, Ivan Henriques, Matteo Marangoni and Pablo Sanz. Supervisor / head of the lab: Edwin van der Heide.

Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag, NL
June 2011

Site-specific installation in a three-floor staircase hall, exploring phenomena of auditory perception of space and movement in the vertical range.

The work runs continuously, integrated in the quotidian activity of this space for transit. Following an algorithmic behavior, two audio channels are diffused over an array of eight full-range speakers attached to the walls. Electronic impulses are the basic material used to activate and accentuate the space. Alternating with periods of inactivity, the pulses create different patterns, going through a range of similar but never totally identical cycles.

[See post to listen to audio]

[See post to listen to audio]

The work is based on software programmed with Max/MSP and a custom hardware system consisting of a multiple relay board and a version of IpsonLab microcontroller (built by Lex van den Broek).

Exquisite Corpse
International Group Show, 13-30 April 2011
SoundFjord, London, UK

In April 2010, before SoundFjord opened it’s doors to the public, we (the creative team at SoundFjord) devised a plan for an exhibition, populated by artists’ works created using the ‘Exquisite Corpse’ model as a point of departure.

The Exquisite Corpse is a method made popular by the Surrealists, and is similar to Consequences, the old parlour game. Words, images or sounds are collectively assembled in a specific way, using rules set in advance, for instance, one is only allowed to see/hear the last section/measure of what was previously contributed.

This exhibition documents the works produced, and finally, reveals the artists who worked on the project and whom have hitherto remained anonymous.

press release
http://www.soundfjord.org/

musicadhoy 2011: SON
Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid. Sala de Cámara
8-9 de Abril de 2011

Paisajes electrónicos
Sala de Cámara, 8 Abril – 22:30h
Rubén García – Pablo Sanz – Xabier Erkizia – Miguel A. García
Solo + group improvisation. Continuous.

folleto festival (pdf en castellano)

The radio show Ars sonora made a edition about the festival. It features a recording of our group improvisation (starts on 16:25).

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Hertz Birthday Celebration
Collaborative streaming event
Rádio Zero, 22 Feb 2011, from 20 to 21 GMT.

Radio Zero sets up a special and colaborative streaming event to comemorate Heinrich Hertz birthday on February 22. Hertz experiments with electromagnetic waves were in the very basis that led to the to the development of the radio. And his name became the term used for radio and electrical frequencies: hertz (Hz), as in kilohertz (kHz) or megahertz (MHz).

Participating artists: Antonio della Marina, Gintas K, Ben Owen, Rui Chaves, Gonçalo Alegria, Daniel Gomes, Pablo Sanz, Carlos Santos, Jorge Valente, Sarah Boothroyd, Noisy Ghost, Andrius Rugys, Daniel Martin-Borret.  Live Mixing by Paulo Raposo.

Each artist was asked to choose and to perform in a given frequency range:
80-200 hz – 200-500 – 500-800 – 800-2000 – 2000-20000.

So, achieving the maximum of 5 simultaneous streams where each plays for about 15 minutes.

A sound narrative based on the experience at the 20th Annual Deep Listening Retreat, held in July 2010 by Pauline Oliveros, Ione and Heloise Gold at Nau Côclea, in the catalonian village of Camallera.

Departing from recordings made on location, it follows a walk through different places and moments over the course of a fictitious time. The surrounding environment, our work space, moments of meditation, personal and collaborative explorations are all present in this interpretation of the days spent at the retreat.

An interplay between the occurrences and traces found in the recorded material with my own memories and the impressions, images, sounds, perceptions or meanings that might be conjured in the imagination of the listener.

Sounds recorded in Camallera, Girona (ES) between July 6th and 10th, 2010.
Created between August and December 2010.

Presented at the Royal Academy of Art of The Hague in January 2011.
Broadcasted in the show ‘Taller de Arte’ (Spanish National Radio) in the Spring 2011.
Forthcoming release of a digital album version (T.B.A.).

Fallen Leaves ‘OCHIBA’ Compilation
Field Noise Records (JP), Jan 2011

Ochiba 2011 by Ochiba

Fallen Leaves ‘OCHIBA’ is an experimental worldwide calling for field recordings of fallen leaves. All unique tracks are mixed together into one album. There are two side of Ochiba, Side A is purely field recordings, Side B is composed one. This album is a miraculous encounter of universe of fallen leaves.

Participants: ANDO Takeyasu, Pablo Sanz Almoguera, SANSEI, Mario Sarramian, SALA, Stan Pete, lukemunn, Noise Lake, John Grzinich, Marcus Beuter, Sean O’Neill, tt-vox, vernier 1418.

I contributed to Side A with a recording made in Madrid in Nov 2010.

SIRENS 2012 is the code name for a project based in the sound of the Dutch civil defense sirens system. This system consists of around 4200 sirens placed all across the country and tested regularly, resonating in unison exactly at 12:00 (midday) every first Monday of the month.

The first step is to gather recordings of the monthly sirens tests with an open call, so I am inviting anybody to contribute with recordings of any of the 12 tests that will happen throughout 2011. The simple goal is to collect as many recordings every month as possible, allowing us to map this large scale event from a variety of locations.

Outcomes of the project are still to be defined and will also depend of the received materials, consisting primarily in work derived of the archive of recordings made over this one-year period. Results will emerge likely at the end of 2011, celebrating the arrival of 2012 and embracing whatever revelations and transformative changes (apocalyptical or not) the new year may bring.

Find below the details about how to contribute.

Please, forward this call to any of your contacts based in the Netherlands potentially willing to participate.

SIRENS 2012 : Contribution guidelines

- Recordings in any location within the country in all sorts of environments and situations are welcome, as far as the sound of the sirens is audible in the recording. It is encouraged to record as well a couple of minutes before and after the sirens sound itself.

- There are no technical limitations neither special requirements. Use any sort of recorder (handheld, laptop, etc) and transducer/microphones you have at hand.

- Please, send uncompressed audio (AIFF/WAVE) or lossless (FLAC) instead of compressed formats (MP3, OGG).

- Use any online storage system of your choice to submit the recordings (any FTP server or services such as Yousendit, Megaupload, Dropbox, etc).
Anyway, there is a Dropbox account available for the project which can be used to upload your recordings.

Log in data (please note: its not needed to download the dropbox application in order to upload files):

https://www.dropbox.com/
username: sirens2012[AT]gmail[DOT]com
password: sirens2012

- Once the files are uploaded, send an email to sirens2012[AT]gmail[DOT]com, including:

* Your name and contact info.
* Name of the file (and download link in case it is not stored in the project´s Dropbox).
* Date and location of the recording (address, a well-known landmark, GPS coordinates, Google Maps…).
* Recording equipment used (mic and recorder).
* (Optional) Any comments and personal impressions about the sound of the sirens.

(Files will be removed from the dropbox account as soon as I receive the submission email and download the files).

- If you feel like contributing throughout the year but feel unsure about being able to remember about it every month, drop me a line and you will be sent a monthly reminder the day before each of the siren tests.

- Every contributor will be included in the credits of the project. All the recordings and as well the derived works will be under copyleft (using a Creative Commons 3.0 license), granting the rights to be shared and reused. Submitting recordings implies that you agree with this license.

- Comments, feedback and questions: sirens2012[AT]gmail[DOT]com

10 min, study for Wave Field Synthesis.
Collaboration with Sara Pinheiro.
Presented on WFS Concert 9 Dec 2010, GOL Foundation / Institute of Sonology, Leiden, NL

A pool of sound fragments from three different urban contexts within the city of The Hague are sequenced, layered, overlapped, yuxtaposed and spatially arranged using the WFS system.

stereo reduction (excerpt)
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