So many projects have concerned themselves with soundscapes, location, space in general. Is it because sound has moved from space (fourier analysis and sine-wave verticality for spectral analysis) to time (granular synthesis)? Is this granularity producing a compulsive need to connect itself back to time? Are our urban (and suburban) spheres micro-political grains, longing to be connected, if not mapped? Or is it just part of a compulsive need to collect, quantify, control our everyday?
here are a few that caught my attention that seem to open mere ‘google earth’ scientific/positivist space towards individual expression and new strategies.
the locative:
silence of the lands
mark shepard’s tactical sound garden
and an interestingstreetscape
new york tenement museum‘s brilliant (and quite popular) project
for anyone interested, I hope to make it to
mobile music technology conferencewhere I think lot of interesting issues are going to be heard…