Specialising and Exhibiting

Week8-Sound for Spatialisation

“When I walk into a room, a space, I think about the frequency of that particular space”

–Bill Viola, 2003

Site-Specific: Describing something as site-specific implies that the work has been made to be experienced at a particular location.

I was questioning myself “How will my project exist in the world beyond the method of submission for marking?” cause I always had tension and reason do make something which was not really good.

Abstract turntablist Maria Chavez makes sound art that evokes the unconscious: quicksilver changes in timbre, random beeps and burbles, words out of nowhere. ‘Chance’ is taken to a whole new level — Maria he keeps her records, her ‘vocabulary’, in one massive, sleeveless pile where they can rub against each other an create new, organic scratches. She also ‘sacrifices’ those records that no longer serve her purpose, transforming them into unintentional samples to be layered one on top of the other. Maria came to the New Sounds studio to explain how, exactly, all this works.

Jonty Harrison – Afterthoughts Duration: 15:59 It is a field recording multichannel piece but I am not very interested in this minimal sounds piece. I find it is quite boring. (The everyday sounds of a suburban garden in early summer evoke more disturbing memories and imaginings as the listener drifts into semi-slumber…)

https://electrocd.com/en/oeuvre/22997/-/-

While many derivations of the terminology site-specific, such as site-sensitive(Aitchison 2005), have come into use among artists, I suggest that the term site-responsive best captures the notion of music-as-action-in-the-world that I will now discuss. 

The actual aspect describes what is essentially inherent to the place, the activated what can be encouraged to be ‘sounded’ through physical intervention, and the associative outlines and forms what I have coined as the wider material of the site. This term draws on any relevant aspects of the social, physical, historical, anecdotal, and aural associations that a site may proffer. 

Documentation

Self reflection-Self reflection is like looking into a mirror and describing what you see. It is a way of assessing yourself, your ways of working and how you study. To put it simply ‘reflection’ means to think about something. Reflecting and composing a piece of self reflective writing is becoming an increasingly important element to any form of study or learning.

1. What would be the ideal space to perform/install your current work in spatialization? It would be amazing if I can perform/install my current work in a gallery or on the balcony of the gallery but I prefer to be alone in a fixed space.
2. What are the most important characteristics of a location for this work? I like quiet places maybe a bit dark like a black box because my composition is a bit heavy and chaotic.
3. Which public space would you like to create a site-responsive work for? I am interested in churches and stages cause I love fancy places and I prefer musical pieces than “noise”. I like the organ pipe and cleaners in the church and personally, I really enjoyed performing so I think stage design is a very fabulous thing.
4. How would you adapt your current work for a gallery space? Consider format, audience placement, duration, installation vs performance I am not ready at the moment and this is the reason why I would desire to go to New York for an open-minded thinking. For now I am thinking of making it as a still installation piece, using nam June paik as an artist reference, having 8 multi channel televisions with different body parts( senses ). Later on I might consider doing a live performance based on that but invite the audience to improvise together rather than finding dancers for a perfect one?