“Islas Resonantes – Resonant Islands”, part 2: Tenerife, La Palma, Fuerteventura
After Gomera, Lanzarote and Gran Canaria on 21st March 2010, Kunstradio presents the second part of the acoustic exploration of the “Resonant Islands”, including sound works from Tenerife, La Palma and Fuerteventura:
1) Agnieszka Waligórska & Pekka Sirén, Teneriffa “Achinech”
EXCERPT2) José Manuel Berenguer, La Palma “Canto de piedra”
EXCERPT3) Christina Kubisch, Fuerteventura „Crowded Deserts”
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“Islas
Resonantes – Resonant Islands” is a project curated by
José Iges and Concha Jerez. International artists were invited
to produce soundscapes on one island each. The project is
well-documented with weblogs, fotos and sound files at
islasresonantes.com and was furthermore published as a book including
two CDs with the sound pieces.  1) Agniezska Waligórska & Pekka Sirén: ”our intention has been to gather sounds of eternal value and quality to show and let people´s imagination fly with us to the shores of waves, sand and rocks, to the first steps of humanity to come for this island, to taste the wind between many times burned pine trees, to climb up to the Teide slopes where winds shout and whistle, whisper and scratch the ground. And after echoes of the valleys life, birds, children, barking dogs, - restaurants attack the nature - try to overtake it, trying to conquer and cover the nature…. ”  2) José Manuel Berenguer on the concept of “Canto de piedra”: “This piece stems from the likelihood that exists between the three-dimensional representation of sounds and that of mountain ranges. By performing a simultaneous reading of the elevations of La Palma island from a sufficiently large number of points on the compass rose, a complex sonic result is obtained with the capacity to give rise to aesthetic experience. The data used by the author was obtained from the SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) carried out by the space shuttle Endeavour STS 99, began on February 11th 2005, which consisted in mapping the earth in three dimensions. This piece does not use sounds captured in the Canaries since the medium that will enable the equivalence between the sounds and the orography itself to be established exclusively consists in electronic sources. Due to my decision to adopt the perspective of the wind as the imagery for my composition, I resolved to give noise an importat role in it. In fact, when considered as a spectrum, a mountain or an island are rather ‘noisy’, in terms of Brownian noise, that is. However, in order to pay a greater homage to the wind, I decided to filter a mass of white noise by means of the data corresponding to the terrestrial elevation of the island. This process equates the convolutions of the signals corresponding to those spectrums, or, in other words, the Brownian noise corresponding to the island with the white noise associated, by means of a poetic license, to the wind.” 3) excerpt from Christina Kubisch’s weblog at islasresonantes.com: “Fuerteventura is described as an island of wind, sand and loneliness. Tourists are invited to experience this special atmosphere out of the common. Making a composition based on local field recordings of the island I feel some embarrassment; The microphone is like a camera – a tool to look for the uncommon, the adventure, the undiscovered and the hidden treasures. The “sound jewels” in midst the perfect silence, far away from the everyday life. On the other hand I know this is not reality. There are many travelers who look for the same outstanding sensations, the rural vergin landscapes etc. But all of the visitors change the island; they modify and sometimes destroy the former tradition of long time habit ways of work and income. As a sound tourist I want to be aware of both sides: I will look for the silence of the desert but as well for the crowded places, I will search the hidden acoustic secrets and the noise of the touristic centres. People come to the island to have a time out of their usual habits but they bring these habits (and the sounds) with them. My piece should be an encounter of opposites, of the magic and the banal, of the unknown in midst the familiar. Sometimes there can be new unusual combinations of the desert and the crowds, sometimes the opposites will make a sharp contrast, but there is as well the possibility of new und unusual combinations of the two worlds. My piece should be a portrait of the island with all its facettes.“ Links: http://islasresonantes.com |
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