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Protected: Sonic Diary 2: Auditory Culture and Space

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Port Vell, Barcelona

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Download audio file (Barcelona-Port-Vell-Walk-2006-05-bin.mp3)

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Walking in Port Vell, Barcelona. May 2006.
(Binaural sound, better on headphones).

North Sea at Scheveningen

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Download audio file (Scheveningen-North-Sea-2009-03.mp3)

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photos of the area

Location: Scheveningen - The Hague, NL
Date: March 2009
Mics/Recorder: Rode NT-4 + 2x DPA 4060 / Fostex FR-2LE

walking listeners

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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)

radioballett

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LIGNA

concert @ STEIM [Amsterdam]

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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.

more info

Sound in Context

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Sound in Context (Full Film) from Sound and Music on Vimeo.

emergent patterns

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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)

Leitza

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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.

Download audio file (2009-08-09-08_47-Leitza-Navarra.mp3)

Location: Leitza, Navarra, ES
Date/Time: 9/08/2009 - 9:00h
Mic/Recorder: 2x Aevox Classic MKII / HiMD Sony MZ-RH1

Ribeira seagulls

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Download audio file (2009-07-15-20_15-mirador-rua-da-vitoria-binaural.mp3)

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Location: Ribeira, Porto (Portugal)
Date/Time: 15/07/2009 - 20:15h
Mic/Recorder: Soundman OKM II / HiMD Sony MZ-RH1

EXAMINED LIFE

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

EXAMINED LIFE
directed by Astra Taylor (2008, US)

food#2009^07-10

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[listen]
Dallas Simpson - Braye Harbour : Harbouring Desires of Transcendence (konkretourist, 2009)
Gordon Hempton - One Square Inch Of Silence (Free Press, 2009)
Gregg Kowalsky - Tape Chants (Kranky, 2009)
Grischa Lichtenberger - Treibgut (Raster-Noton, 2009)
Hidrogenesse - Bestiola (Austrohúngaro, 2008)
Jana Winderen - Submerged (Touch, 2009)
Luís Antero - Big Wheel (konkretourist, 2009)
Mika Vainio - Aíneen Musta Puhelin / Black Telephone Of Matter (Touch, 2009)
Monobox - Molecule (Logistic Records, 2003)
Richard Garet - L’avenir (Winds Measure Recordings, 2008)
Rob Hall - CS Podcast#9 : Special Analogical Force Set (dj set @ Specka, Madrid, 24/01/09)
Rob Hall - Leisure System 04 (dj set @ Berghain, Berlin 12/06/09)
Roger De La Frayssenet - Kitnabudja Town (Metamkine, 1997)
Son Clair - From the Bridge (konkretourist, 2009)
V/A - The Sonics of Art Spaces (Stasisfield, 2007)
William Basinski - 92982 (2062, 2009)

[film]
Paprika - Satoshi Kon (2006, JP)
Be Kind Rewind - Michel Gondry (2008, UK/US)
The Matrix Reloaded - Wachowski Bros (2003, US)
The Matrix Revolutions - Wachowski Bros (2003, US)
Return to Source: Philosophy & ‘The Matrix’ - Josh Oreck (2004, US)
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie - Luis Buñuel (1972, FR/ITA/ES)

[text]
Limpieza de Oidos - R. Murray Schafer (Ricordi, 1967)
Background noise: perspectives on sound art - Brandon LaBelle (Continuum, 2006)
Las Ciudades Invisibles - Italo Calvino (1972) (Siruela, 2005)

[events]
Evan Parker/Frank Perry - Networked Duo @ SMC09, Porto, PT
Nicolas Collins - Salvage (Guiyu Blues) (for seven performers reanimating dead circuitry) @ SMC09, Porto, PT
Jana Winderen @ Todays Art, Den Haag, NL
Philip Jeck @ Todays Art, Den Haag, NL
Mark Bain @ Todays Art, Den Haag, NL
Justice Yeldham @ Todays Art, Den Haag, NL
Biosphere @ Todays Art, Den Haag, NL
Carlos Suárez @ Experimentaclub, Madrid, ES

light recordings

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Erika Blumenfeld

incidental light

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the light of the sun or the moon, seen in a place from which they are invisible and one cannot discern the source of the light; a place only partly illuminated by such light; the reflection of such light, and the various material effects derived from it; the penetration of such light into places where it becomes uncertain and obstructed, and is not easily made out, as through a cane brake, in a wood, through half closed shutters, etc., etc., the same light in a place, object, etc., where it does not enter and strike directly, reflected and diffused by some other place or object, etc., where does it strike; in a passageway seen from inside or outside, places where the light mingles, etc., etc., with the shadows, as under a portico, in a high overhanging loggia, among rocks and gullies, in a valley, on hills seen from the shady side so that their crests are gilded; the reflection produced, for example, by a coloured pane of glass on those objects on which the rays passing through that glass are reflected; all those objects, in a word, that by means of various materials and minimal circumstances come to our sight, hearing, etc., in a way that is uncertain, indistinct, imperfect, incomplete, or out of the ordinary.

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Giacomo Leopardi - The Zibaldone

cosmic panoramas

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Superb vistas from reborn Hubble [BBC News 9 Sep 2009]