composition
Highlights
Watch In?
Watch in? is an audio application developed by aifoon for the Permeke museum, featuring the AudioCollier, a pendant speaker worn by visitors to experience sound compositions linked to Permeke’s artworks. This device allows visitors to engage actively as listeners and performers, creating a dynamic, shared sound environment as multiple users become a walking surround system.
Machines wake up at 10 a.m. in Ile d’Orléans
This excerpt features an 8-minute audio recording from the first day of a two-day walk around Île d'Orléans, Quebec, conducted on July 26, 2019. Beginning at 7:30 AM near the island’s entrance, the walk captures the awakening of mechanical sounds within the island’s primarily agricultural and tourism-based landscape on the St. Lawrence River.
Transeuntis Mundi – Web Derive 01
The Transeuntis Mundi Project uses immersive 360° walkscape recordings to create a transmedial archive of cultural heritage from diverse global sites, currently representing four countries across four continents. Led by Brazilian artist Candida Borges and Colombian researcher Gabriel Mario Vélez, the project integrates technology, nomadic practices, and artistic research to produce virtual reality works, audiovisual compositions, and performances reflecting millennial human passage.
Soundwalk in Aulus-les-Bains
This post features a morning walk through Aulus-les-Bains, the last French village before the Spanish border in the Pyrenees, during red deer mating season in September. The recordings and composition were created by Carina Pesch, with voices by Greg Byatt, Carina Pesch, and passengers, all captured during the CAMP-seminar "Recording Red Deer" by Chris Watson.
Walking pieces
Breath-stream
"Breath-stream" (2020) is a musical composition connecting human breath with local wind currents, where performers first identify wind direction via Earth Wind Map before aligning their breath rhythm to the wind. Recordings were collected from 13 different locations between early 2020, creating a platform that links individual internal experience with environmental awareness.
Articles elsewhere
Marcher, danser, écouter, faire sonner, Lire/écrire et composer des paysages sonores in situ
J’imagine, dans un festival, ou ailleurs, la co-écriture/lecture d’un paysage sonore déambulant, avec un ou plusieurs musiciens, lecteurs, performeurs, danseurs.. … Plus
MONDAYS in August
DANCE COMPOSITION/ CHOREOGRAPHY WORKSHOP FOCUS: WORDS AND MOVEMENT RELATIONSHIP Mondays, August 1, 8 & 15, 202211am-1pm, NYC Time Faculty: Anabella Lenzu As choreographers and creators, how do we deal with the relationship and overlapping layers so that dance, music, and the poetry of the lyrics intertwine to create dances both for the stage as well as for […]
A Walk with Horns: “playing” the St John’s Harbour Symphony
The St John’s Harbour Symphony (http://www.soundsymposium.com/about/harbour-symphony/) (played on 1st July this year (2019)) is a striking sonic event. A composition for ship’s horns it takes place in, and resonates around, the natural amphitheatre of St John’s Harbour, Newfoundland. In a … Continue reading →
Events
Sound Walks by aifoon
A Sound Walk is a blindfolded listening walk in which you explore the surroundings with your ears. Experience the sound composition of the city with amplified senses! Be amazed at how you pick up specific sounds to which we usually pay little attention because they get lost in the general soundscape.
