“About Trails, Landscapes and Sound Archaeologiesâ€: a highly recommended performance at the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela. Next Tuesday, November 6, at 20h30.
In the tradition, surely inaugurated by Alvin Lucier, of making audible with the help of technological processes natural acoustic phenomena usually unnoticed into an ordinary ear is a whole school of electronic music and sound art where nature reveals a new and unknown, so far of the use of technology as an innovation in itself, and where sometimes, as in the work of Fernando Casas, promotes an ethic of observation and not intervention; a “natural listening,†either to detect sound through the traces of time and space, or to reveal aspects of reality that otherwise would be inaccessible to us.
In correspondence to the exhibition of Fernando Casas the now was, the before will be, CGAC own production, thus consist in a selection of works by artists of different generations, in order to illustrate the path of an essential theme –the nature– from disparate approaches as the spatial acoustics, the sound ecology, the phonograph, and a current boom in different scientific fields, such as data sonification.
- Ãngel Faraldo – Estudos Sonoros 1 & 2 [2012]
- Alvin Lucier – Opera with Objects [1997]
- Mark Bain – StartEndTime (Fragmento) [2003]
- Andrea Polli and Joe Gilmore – N. 16 April 2006 [2006]
- Chris Watson – Ant-Steps [2006]
- Hildegard Westerkamp – Kits Beach Soundwalk [1989]
- Christina Kubisch – Five Electrical Walks: 1. Homage with Minimal Disinformation [2007]
- Durán Vazquez – Home, Sweet Home: 5. Boat Dockage [2009]
More info at Vertixe Sonora.