Sites of architectural and acoustic interest - UK
Full of Noises: A weekend of new music and sound art, Cumbria, UK
... to keep an eye out for the next year.
http://fonfestival.org/
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Public sound art work - UK
Anthem: a public sound art work, Luton, UK
Central Bedfordshire Council have commissioned an audio work as a public art work for Woodside Link Road. Excellent news.
Visual artist Bettina Furnée and sound artist Marcus Leadley are creating the work. local residents are asked to submit sounds that 'best represent the area', Leadley will then create a composition from this and Furnée will create a visual sound wave along the sides of the road.
"Every place is alive with sounds: the sounds of animals and birds, the wind in the trees or familiar sounds such as church bells and traffic sounds. Some are mundane and some are extraordinary. Some we hold dear and some we wish would go away! While we always hear sound we often fail to really listen. The Woodside Link public art project celebrates both sound and image, drawing the two together in a rich audio-visual mapping of the surrounding Houghton Regis and Luton area. We are asking people to actively listen out and record their favourite sounds and contribute them to the project."
A nice idea, and brilliant to read about public sound art, especially one that involves others in its creation.
However, the sound is available as a download or CD which does not make it easy to access. The likelihood is that most people will see this work and not hear it. If this sound was transmitted by a radio, just locally to cover the road, drivers would be able to tune in and listen much more easily.
http://www.luton-dunstable.co.uk/Residents-asked-send-musical-submissions-Woodside/story-27549574-detail/story.html#1
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Audio James Turrell - AUS
Climata: Audio work created for and in a James Turell light sculpture, National Gallery Australia.
Composer and sound artist Robert Curgenve has made a 'drone music' style sound works to be heard inside a Turrell light sculpture. He used recordings from 15 of Turrell's light sculptures around the world.
"Curgenven's Climata is a recording project which recharts the divisions of space as "heard" within James Turrell's Skyspaces" ."If James Turrell employs light to shape space, Curgenven is interested in exploring the manner in which the auditory can manipulate our perception of space and our perception of the shape of time. He has explored this equally within architectural spaces as well as in remote open spaces in outback Australia."
An interesting pairing of audio and visual works that sound as if they will be complimentary to the experiencing of each work. Something I would very much like to visit.
Review: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/robert-curgenven-climata-in-skyspace-at-the-national-gallery-of-australia-20150806-gismtw.html
Perhaps the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in the UK will commission the works to show in their Turrell light sculpture 'Deer Shelter SkySpace': http://www.ysp.co.uk/whats-on/open-air/james-turrell-deer-shelter-skyspace
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Hiroshima commemorative work - USA
Hiroshima audio-visual art installation: University of Maine, USA
An audio visual installation made to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing. Created by new media artists N.B. Aldrich, John Carney and Duane Ingalls who collaborated with sound artist Adachi Tomomi.
http://bangordailynews.com/2015/08/05/news/bangor/art-at-umaine-commemorates-anniversary-of-hiroshima-bombing/
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