Introductory Text
by
José Iges
IberWave
today presents works belonging to the realm of the soundscape.
Although some of these pieces weren't developed for a specific radio
broadcast, their profile and themes, or the sounds themselves, clearly
point to radio and radioart.
Each of these works constitutes an approach to the Iberoamerican
soundscape, which is why this program is presented as an audible-mosaic
of that wealth of acoustic diversity.
The first work takes us to the Colombian city of Medellin. It was
created by the young duo Eat Rain, who resorted to randomness, the use
of low-tech as well as some songs from the 1980s for their piece.
The intercultural character of these landscapes becomes more evident in
frontier territories. Such is the case of the "Laboratory Iquitos"
project , curated in Iquitos (an island in the middle of the Amazon
River) in 2009 by Jaime Cerón, Christiane Chappel and Mayra
Estévez Trujillo, with German theorist Sabine Breitsameter
involved as a catalyst of the process. The project gathered
experimental sound artists from Peru, Colombia and Ecuador.
The Mexico-United States border is a much more confrontational space.
Mexican sound artist Luz Mª Sánchez has portrayed
the region by means of radio signals and messages of the border police,
as the title and material that makes up her work illustrates.
Mexican artist Yair López resorted to other kind of radio
sounds: those of radio stations broadcasting in Guadalajara, which he
offers as a means of characterizing the soundscape of the city, and
mixes with those of the various public spaces.
Wedge between these two works we find that of Pedro Garbellini and
Mauricio Rivera, respectively Brazilian and Colombian, whose works seek
to extend the notion of soundscape to the realm of the private and the
imaginary.
Finally, the young Chilean artist Valentina Villarroel transforms the
sounds of the city of Concepcion by electronic means. Thus we will
reach the end of a journey that will have taken us from the concrete to
the abstract within the framework of the radio.
1. (((Eat rain))) Jader Cartagena -
Edwin Velez, COL:
Las cosas del
pueblo (The things of the people)
- parts 1 and 2
2011, 8'55"
Las cosas del pueblo is a soundscape of the city of Medellin.
It was made in 2011 following the purchase of a journalist writer in
the field of the bridges (a mall in the city recyclers). Along with the
engine, the scrap dealer who sold, gave 3 mini cassettes used, to
revise find that the character had been recorded during a full day. The
mechanism for recording the widget is activated by voice. Thus, for a
day we hear his voice, he did business, and calls out their products
and conversations with acquaintances. This led us to reflect on the
people, the streets and the sound that accompanies us in the urban. We
found that many of the phrases invented and shouted in the streets by
hawkers, traders and all the characters that are there are like worms
sound. This led us to reflect on those other worms sound of the songs
of the 1980s. Therefore we include them here.
2. Wayra
Jacanamijoy / Erwin Mafaldo / Ricardo Trujillo: No callarán
las
voces - Iquitos un Viaje por los sonidos - El Sonido que fue
(They don't will shut up voices - Iquitos a trip by the sounds - the
sound that it was)
2009, 4'
A project by
Humboldt Association - Goethe Institut Lima and Colombia.
3. Francisco Andía / Alan
Poma, PER:
Crónicas de sonora
amazónica (Chronicles of sound Amazon)
2009, 5'
A project by Humboldt
Association - Goethe Institut Lima and Colombia.
4. Luz Mª
Sánchez, MX:
Police Radio
Frequencies
2005, 8'30"
5. Pedro Garbellini, BR:
Meetings in a White
Stairs
2012, 2'
I've never get so much in contact with my building like I've had when
recording those audios. The meetings with people, neighbors, in the
stairs was very funny. Also, i'm not very proud of, but, in silence, I
recorded people in their houses, through their door. And that was
really nice! for me, being a very curious man, to listen people eating,
watching television, arguing and laughing. A lot of knowledge of the
place i live, the people and their habits. Also, it made me noticed the
fact that every 3 minutes a plane passes here! 10 years living here and
never noticed that, pretty crazy no?
6. Mauricio Rivera, COL:
Cosmic Ritornello
2012, 7'
It reflects a soundscape recordings through the natural landscape
symbolic presentations. The different planes in the composition,
describes the transformation of space from the translation topographic
sound, in a landscape without time and space defined, but, in the
expression and interpretation of multidimensional sound.
“Cosmic ritornello” allows inhabit new territories
simultaneously, in order to expand our concept of physical notions of
landscape.
7. Valentina
Villarroel, CHI:
Environment
2012, 5'30"
Sound process: mixing, transposition, temporary expansion.
Recording of urban sounds in different pools that are part of places in
the city of Concepcion. These audios were processed in the broadest
sense altering the characteristics of sounds collected during actions
in the public space. The processing consisted alter the volume or
amplitude of the signal, alter the frequency spectrum used in the
variable time delay, modify the waveforms and saturate the audio signal.
Later these records were manipulated and edited, randomly changing its
parameters to generate a sound so different or modified using
synthesizers and audio programs.
8.
Yair
López, MX:
Diagonal
2012, 6'00"
It is the result of my sound drifts by some parts of the city of
Guadalajara and through radio stations captured in the large local
quadrant. It contains a sample of how to hear the city: its radio
stations, places I like, I feel terror, and in that way he had always
wanted to be.
Sounds herein was captured in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico after
walking sound, public space interventions.
Find markets, religious protests and the life of a popular area of the
city. As well as radio recordings that for me represent the city itself.
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