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Room & The Liverpool Soundhunters
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1 June 2004
Introduction:
During
the Listening Room residency at the Bluecoat Arts Centre since 1998 there
have been a number of "soundscape" events using location recordings;
SHUNT based on around the sounds of Trains; LIFTS based upon the soundscapes
and journeys within "lifts", and to a lesser extent Twilight
1-4 an annual show tracing the movement from day to night via twilight.
A series of "soundwalks" focussing the attention of the participants
on the sounds and soundscape of the inner city has also been organised
by the Listening Room.
The
Soundhunter Project proposes to return our attention to location recordings
as an activity during the closure of the Bluecoat Art Centre 2004-2006.
Soundhunting will focus on the collection of audio recording of interesting
soundscapes or sonic events within Merseyside, documenting and archiving
them. Other methods of recording would involve sound diaries, sound maps
and sound marks
1) Interested individual
2) Existing Sound Artists
3) Opening up the importance of
the "audio track" to video & digital artists
4) Mainstream Education System
5) Adult vocational education system
Potential Collaborations
1) Bluecoat Connect
2) Fact
3) Newsham Adult Education Centre
4) BBC /Merseyside Archives
Outcomes
1) Performances @ Frakture &
the listening Room
2) Workshops on Listening Skills,
use of soundscape recording in performance
3) Archiving of soundscapes, archiving
of "lost sounds"
4) Archiving recordings at the
National Sound Archive @ British Library.
5) CD of recordings (2008 in mind)
6) Archiving a list of soundmarks
The
Equipment.
1)
List
not yet collated
Time Frames
1) Late 2004/ Feb 2005 Research funding / Connect to interest individual / March 2005
organised sessions / June 2005 review progress.
Summary:
The Soundhunters project will initially be based
around monthly events involving hands on location recordings, using equipments
supplied by the participants & Listening Room/Frakture. The skills
involve starting with developing listening skills using techniques initiated
by Murray Schaffer, recognising the soundscape & the audio track as
aesthetic objects worthy of attention, notation and archiving. Linking
the material collected to performance & artistic practice. Thus the
Soundhunters project crosses boundaries and is multidisciplinary: Topics
include listening skills and acoustic ecology; "natural history"
recordings; performance art/music and installations; audio soundtracks
within other disciplines. e.g. video, radio, theatre, abstract sound disconnected
from its means of production schizophonia !
This
is a broad canvas to aim for so the initial stages include, providing
the tools to the job and opportunities to recruit interested parties around
a focal point. The collecting of the material, the archive will be used
to develop further skills, artistic practice which are deemed important.
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