Format: sound composition, field recordicgs
Technique: fixed media composition
Place: AudioCulture festval, Europe – A Sound Panorama, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Year: 2011
At the beginning is sound, at the end is noise
Organization of sound “220 sounds layered in Five Minutes” is a gradual layering of multiple audio samples, with the objective to create timbres of specific destinations or locations. In this case, Europe as a whole. I think the concept of mapping the space by tone, which is generated by being filled audible spectrum with sounds, recorded in detail on a specific spot. Layering of sounds generated interference tones, which are interconnected with other sounds and other tones, and it is point to create an acoustic material reflecting the complex sound color of the space. It could be described as a kind of sonification, or absolute soundscape. Find a consonance of specific place may be a process of looking from a great height at a certain point with filtering out the sounds of other places. From the height of geostationary orbit [36 thousand km], Europe seems to be a point or speckle, rather than space. Why not to look at Europe as a whole noise.
‘Europe – a sound panorama’ was a project organized by the Goethe-Institute Belgrade, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics as an idea covered by media artist Götz Naleppa. From a total of 186 submissions, the international jury selected ten compositions by creative individuals from a great many countries in Europe. Under the artistic direction of media artist Thomas Köner, they have been invited to Karlsruhe for one week in October 2011 to elaborate from their works a European co-production for the CUBE at the ZKM, and a radio version for Deutschlandfunk Kultur. https://zkm.de/en/event/2011/10/audioculture-europe-a-sound-panorama
