Universal weather
IHab045. PABLO RECHE - Microclima
Pablo Reche's career is in a very interesting point. His work with drones has made him a key figure in this field since
the late 1990's; anyway recently we have seen some highly welcomed new formal approaches to his work and
'Microclima' is a clear example of that. Reche's growing emphasis on detail finds on the field-recording based 'Microclima' an incredible medium: here Reche effectively articulates his interest
on the macro and the micro through sound composition combining the droning grave sounds
he has managed to formally master with this new and meaningful approach to textural and detailed sounds, all that with some very compelling and beautiful formal results. |
Derive
IHab044. MECHA / ORGA - 40:31
"The exploration of a fixed spatial field entails
establishing bases and calculating directions
of penetration. It is here that the study of
maps comes in - ordinary ones as well as
ecological and psychogeographical ones -
along with their correction and improvement.
It should go without saying that we are not at
all interested in any mere exoticism that may
arise from the fact that one is exploring...
for the first time. Besides its unimportance,
this aspect of the problem is completely
subjective and soon fades away.'
-Guy Debórd from 'Theory of the Dérive' |
Barcelona
IHab043. JAN KEES-HELMS - Barcelona
Barcelona is a city full of contradictions and
Jan Kees-Helms tried to catch these different
atmospheres in one
sound-collage. Back home he
composed all these
field-recordings and combined
opposite backgrounds... |
Form and perception
IHab042. DAVID VELEZ - Forma y percepción
"The so called 'materialization' of a feeling in the conscious
mind really means a materialization of the reflection of that
feeling through the medium of some realistic conception."
-Kazimir Malevich
"We must not, therefore, wonder whether we really perceive
a world, we must instead say: the world is what we perceive."
-Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
Vanishment point
IHab041. D'INCISE
The fields remain while the recorder has long vanished
“...we cannot decompose the world into independently
existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter,
nature does not show us any isolated 'building blocks'
but rather appears as a complicated web of relations
between the various parts of the whole. These relations
always include the observer in an essential way. The
human observer constitute the final link in the chain
of observational processes, and the properties of any
atomic object can be understood only in terms of the
object's interaction with the observer.”
- Fritjof Capra |
Communication signals
IHab040. HIROKI SASAJIMA -
Colony
I’ve long been fascinated by the detail of sound, whether in
a dense audible field or in the quietest environment. Indeed,
it is locations we think of as ‘still’ that draw me in most.
Listening to the stridulation of insects is just one way we can
move nearer to the world in which small occurrences often
create the loudest sonic elements. By shifting our perception
we can understand more clearly how fluid, how active stillness
really is.
On ‘Colony’ Hiroki Sasajima presents us with eighteen
movements; a few minutes each, intense and strident,
capturing the language within locations dominated by these
sonic elements to such an extent that it is the normal human
instinct to filter them out. One of the reasons I remain
fascinated by the act of field recording, the art of listening,
is its ability to remove those filters and ‘Colony’ reminds
us of that process.
-Jez Riley French |
Memory tracing
IHab039-1. ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE -
Psyite
IHab039-2. ARTIFICIAL MEMORY TRACE -
Compo sites
Slavek Kwi has been without a doubt one of the most interesting and original sound artists working with field recordings over the past decade. On a recent note for
The Field Reporter journalist, John McEnroe said:
"The work of Slavek Kwi…have this approach where you sense matter, form and motion but most important you sense the will and purpose behind the incidental: you sense time expressed through things, through invisible objects whose form and matter are subdued by some force beyond reason, the force of truth."
Impulsive Habitat happily presents Psyite and Compo sites, two works that complement each other: while Psyite is more of an assembled piece, Compo sites is more of a fragmented unfinished version of Psyite that offers the possibility to be assembled, as Slavek Kwi proposes, giving the listener the chance of a more interactive role. |
Alvoco
IHab038. LUÍS ANTERO -
O rio / The river (Water)
This is the first edition of a large
soundwork that I intend to build
on the river Alvoco. This river,
a distance of 37km, is born in
Serra da Estrela (the highest point
in Portugal) and flows into Ponte
das 3 Entradas (a bridge with
3 entries), where it joins river Alva,
following thence to the mouth, the
river Mondego (Coimbra).
- Luís Antero |
Impulsiivinen elinympäristö
IHab037. FILIPE CRUZ - Hämeentie
Hämeentie is the longest street
in Helsinki, Finland. Not only is
it long, it's also wide. It has
double lanes both ways with
a priority for bus. Also a tram
line goes through the center.
Hämeentie doesn't have as
much traffic as you would
expect but you can usually
see buses going through it
day and night. Underground,
a subway serves Hämeentie
in Hakaniemi and Sörnäinen.
-Filipe Cruz |
Buenos Aires
IHab036. CALARCO, MONTERO, RECHE - Embalse ( I )
On July of 2011 Juan José Calarco, Manrico Montero and Pablo Reche entered
a studio in Buenos Aires to record a series of performances where they
combined custom instruments, processings, objects and microphones: the result of this performances is
'Embalse (I)', the first in a series of field recording-based works where the different
approaches of the artists create a new sound full of rich detail craftly
structured through the timeline. |
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Désolation insulaire
FLAVIEN GILLIÉ
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