SI18
Documentology
Release 01
mitsa and erica
title:
"no birds in field recordings"
duration:
5:16
description:
An audio track with parts of mitsa's and erica's conversations, one evening at nordplein. It is composed as two parallel monologues. On the left speaker is mostly erica's voice and on the right side mostly mitsa's. Talkin mostly about public space, field recording in public spaces, the position of the one that records and the one that is being recorded, the difference between soundscape and pure library sounds, how to choose what is urgent to be published, while the sounscape of nord plein is present
score:
start recording in a public space while we have a free conversation.
input [raw material]:
field recordings
tools [used but not seen/heard everything /from tools to software/ used to obtain the material and modify the material]:
zoom recorder, reaper for editing.
process log [steps, process, curation]:
1. meet at nord plein 2. record the soundscape while discussing 3. choice of the material and edit
output [public outcome]:
[1]
Release 02
title
Schooling Shoaling
duration
9:52
description
An exploration of pattern entrances and exits
score
Listen and adapt to the other players' rhythm
input
Audio file
tools
- Water bottles: 2 made of metal, 1 made of plastic
- Wooden branches
- Microphone
- Audacity
process log
1. Outside, at Spoorsingel. It's sunny and feels like summer
2. Read notes on the pad about uneven patterns
3. Discuss (keywords: inside-outside, entering-leaving patterns, constantly moving pattern(s), schooling and shoaling)
4. Drink water
5. Realize that everyone is drinking water
6. Realize that the water bottle is a common instrument
7. Gather branches
8. Hit record
9. Hit branches against water bottles
10. Sync energies and synergies
11. Swim with or against schools and shoals (and schoals)
12. Enter or leave as desired
output
schoolshoal.mp3
Release 04
Caretaking with erica and miriam The jingle board Parliament
pad here: release four pad
Al & Mitsa
[title] Getting Political: Re-making Anthems & Money Talks
[duration] 6 short snippets with length between 0:14 and 0:38 min
[description] Re-enacting quotes from 3 bulgarian politicians and re-mixing the Sound of Happiness, Te Deum and the greek, the bulgarian and the duth national anthem
[score]
[input] Alex recorded the quotes with OS' Spoken Content option. Mitsa recorded guitar, voice and synth and processed one percussive sample
[tools] OS' Spoken Content, Audacity, Reaper, electric guitar, keybord synth
[process log] our process pad is here. We started by drafting ideas and what was most interesting for us at the moment, was focusing on some political contexts. Mitsa was experimenting with remixing national anthems already and Alex was having fun with exploring some iconic quotes of the Bulgarian statesmen over the past 35 years of Bulgaria's transition to democracy and market economy. Our common topic is "Getting Political" and then each of us focused on creating 3 snippets on our sub-topics - anthems & quotes. During the process, we were sharing the work on each step with each other and getting feedback.
▶Alex's process the first quote I selected was Zhivkov's one about money. Then, I was mainly looking for other quotes that are tackling the topic of money. When the politicians were saying those things, they were speaking in a vernacular manner, not using any high and official language.
Zhivkov and Borisov's quotes are also recorded on video. Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's quote is from a newspaper. I translated their quotes in English and then recorded them with my Mac's Spoken Content option using the voice of Daniel. Then, added some applause at the end. We were conserned about copyrights, that is why the pieces are re-created by us and not taken from the internet.
▶ Mitsa's process I was thinking of the current importance of nationalism for states and then had the idea of underlining that by messing around andremaking several anthems with a more pop sound. I remade the Eurovision anthem, the melody of Happiness and an anthem combining lyrics from the Greek, the Bulgarian and the Dutch. There are several ideas related to that gesture. First, by taking out the symphonic and classical sound of the anthems, they lose some of their glamor connected to the high and important musical past.Then by experimenting with contemporary conical elements, I underline how nationalism is present in today's systems and how power can be echoed through music. (tan tan tan, pretty big things). It was also really playful for me to mess around.
[output] Mitsa's Getting Political: Contemporary Anthems Anthem of Tolerrant Europe, First Robot Congressman, and National Anthem & Alex's Getting Political: Money Talks
▶ Todor Zhivkov: original quote vs. the recording
▶ "The Tsar" Simeon Borisov von Saxe-Coburg-Gotha: the recording
▶ Boyko Borisov: original quote vs. the recording
[who?] Alex & Mitsa
Caretakers: Grgr, Miri, Mitsa
Release 05
Miri & Mitsa
[title] MiMi
[duration] 4:34
[description] Two texts performed as spoken word with the same guitar loop as a basis and a different editing approach.
[input] audio recording of our voices; looped guitar ; beat edot
[tools] mobile phone recorder, mini microphone, Ableton, Reaper, ambient effects, pitch effect
[process log]
- Both of us wrote a text that later we would perform process pad
- We made a guitar loop with some effects, which became a basis for the music part
- I recorded my part and used the pitch effect for detuning both the voice and the guitar
- Miri....
- We merged the two tracks to 1
[who] Miriam + Mitsa
Release 06
Mitsa & Alex
[title] Diffracted Narrations
[description] This simple recipe for diffractive perception of information provided by two sources can be used on various types of pieces. However, one of the inputs should be a video and the other one - a written text. We create a new piece by muting the original narration of the video and adding a completely different one. This method allows us to experiment on conceptual level: what types of stories or thoughts we would like to play with? By experiencing one source through the other, creative and unexpected readings can emerge.
[input] Video and written text. In our experiment we used Denise Fereira Da Silva, Arjuna Neuman (2019), Four waters: deep implicancy as a video source and two poems by Parwana Amiri: Your Eyes Bother Us and How Hard
[tools] computer, mobile phone
[process log]
▶ process pad
- Pick two pieces:
-one video (ideally without subtitles and texts on it)
-a written text (article, poem, short story etc.)
- Video: if the video has audio, mute it
- Text:
-choose part of the written text that you would like to add as a new voice over of the video
- Perform the new piece by playing the video and narrating it live yourself
- Record the performance with video & audio
As a result, you will have a new piece with a diffracted narration.
[output] Our diffracted narration - one of the takes (not the final choice of poems).
[reads] Denise Fereira Da Silva, Arjuna Neuman (2019), Four waters: deep implicancy
Parwana Amiri (2019-2020), Your Eyes Bother Us and How Hard
Pad for diffractive instrument
after the tutorial with michael I created a pad that might help for next year's research
pad for diffractive instrument
From Prototyping Experiments
Time stretch on an music track
Release 07
Release 08
Diffractive Dj Set
With Supi and Alex, mixing contributions of all the releases
Listening to the diffractive DJ set of Special Issue 18
Voices, echoed with ominous pad ---- animacies, the plant talking climate anxiety --ominous drone is impactful --- i am not sure because looped ---> creates space
ominous, intensity, building rhythmic pattern -- voices meddling to each other
--- creating rhythm -------- corpus from voices
conceptual connection / ----->
emerging the european union (eurovision) song detuned ----- diffractive reading ----- something is going wrong here ----> conceptual
ominous sine wave again ---- mystery, stress -----> experiencing
> paired with rhythmic dance from vroesenpark i hear a space and an emotion over it ---> bringing a field recording from big hangout at a park combining it with the mix
> and something that is danceable -------- a voice over like a memory a voice that you cannnot understand----> it builds atmosphere
disrupted by lady gaga ----- all got disrupted ------> conceptual
rhythmic drum with annoying claps --> it is irony again ------> but the drums is continuing
loop create space and safety, are the foundation, you build on them ====> build on lady gaga, rythmic pattern from field recording and ironic clapping
the clapping is somehow related to the gaga and to the field recording
emma talks, not clearly ====== connected with the detuned trombetes that sing cooly
voices blurred ==== combined with epic detuned cool singing === many voices together
the drum voice machine ----- create the rhythmic patterns -------- the lone singing stays
the bottle rhythmic enter while the voice sings ------- they are becoming the next rhythmic foundation
again field recording of a park, we also hear cars, the wind, some discussions
combined now with the drum voice machine ' what is right right right not not not not not not not not rhythmic discussion with the bottles and the voices give and take ----------> rhythmic, musically ---> rhythm is body movement
explo explo explo explore explore explo explore investigate play around with investigate what is right right not to
(it is much more distant the using of an instrument than of a voice , body ----> it goes voice > body > instrument)
rhythmic pattern combined with Angela Davis voice ----> gesture of giving voice really quick rhythms as intensifying sequencer with sine waves ---> the very advertisement sound that then gets detuning ------> i see that voilently detuning for me it's a gesture of degrading, underlining saying pay attention here ----> because it is considered bad quality, or something has broken -------> when things get detuned -------> they escape from category----> tuning ---------> from strict frequency structure it is like funny happy sound but it is so much related to advertisement mixed with babe cries --- loops ----- lion ----- human utterances -----
animates ---- listening to the hierarchies ---- dissolving them
american american american merican merican
uneven patterns enter
how to dissolve sound ---> 1. disrupt 2. mix with something total different that disrupts it
metallic sound enters -----> i know it is from water but it sounds like a cutting machine
intense -- something is moving and cutting
ok stop / change of paradigm
total difference
> the detuned voice of mine with the detuned guitar
> the detuned voice loses their humanity --- becomes more like a machine/monster
---> cicadas enter in the pause of the guitar
> and then another voice talking about artist selling emotions
and then turns into a rap song and then the clap enters and people applause