HOME is a soundscape music piece, composed and performed by Sound Matters for the Mint Works collective  as part of the COP22 cultural programme in Marrakech in November 2016.

Didgeridoo - Mike Edwards
Piano & sound design - Harry Coade
Vocals - Marouane Hajji 
Cello - Hannah Kate Reeves

Recorded and produced by Sound Matters 2016

Special thanks to Mint Works for inviting us to their beautiful artist residency in Marrakech. 

www.sound-matters.com
www.mintworks.org

HOME  (Soundscape piece for Mint Works)

Welcome to our 1st complete podcast -  a 15-minute documentary.

What does a Mexican artist studying space have in common with a former Vietnamese refugee who calls Canada home?  Listen to our audio feature where the journey of space and a fleeing human intersect and we arrive together in one destination: the Empire of Dreams.

We explore human movement which is triggered by fear and hope -- it is a venture into the unknown.

Thanks to artist Nahum Mantra and writer Kim Thuy for their beautiful words and expressions. And to all the participants for their contribution. 

NOTE:  we also took a section of an interview Spencer Wells,  an anthropologist/geneticist with the National Genographic project, did with the Red Cedar Environmental Institute.

FEATURE:  EOD - An introductory journey with a space artist & a refugee writer.

Happy Birthday was created by playing with fragments read from a visualisation of the word Happy Birthday, and a PD patch called "My Voice Means" both made by Ron Herrema. The experiment was presented at SPUR residency at Tate Britain in January 2015 as part of the Radio City project. It was broadcast through the gallery radio system and later SPUR invited me to exhibit online this work together with the visual work of Sophy Alda. Here I am quoting the perception of my work by Sophy Alda:  "Yours as a piece to be broadcast amongst other readings through the gallery radio system, and mine as a visual response to the project.
Your piece to me seems to be a breaking up of and recontextualization of a familiar pattern of syllables (one with some degree of individual weight through memory in English speakers) presented out of order and repetitively to create an evocative soundscape verging on the hypnotic.

The presentation of this through a multi space and multi speaker broadcast system seems particularly effective as it echoes the broken up nature of the sound but also facilitates the intimate consumption of it: it is up to the consumer to decide how near or far they are from the the sound and how much attention they pay to it, their experience changing as they move through the space in which it is being broadcast.

This seems relevant in the gallery space as relayed through the gallery radio system, but also in the browser space which is almost always accessed intentionally and with autonomy. The work can be experienced by any number of people broken up between places and although their individual experiences can still be intercepted by those nearby they retain a sense of real intimacy." Here a link to our full exchange: http://www.spurspurspur.org/2015/03/15/internal-broadcast-in-conversation/

Happy Birthday [fragmented]

We are a Mexican podcast producer and a Canadian/Asian journalist who are migrants ourselves. Our experiences professionally and personally sparked this project. We are concerned with the lack of depth and breadth in mainstream coverage of migration.

EOD is an audio voyage, a narrative arc that unravels the stories behind The Story of Migration -- the many dimensions of the human quest: personal, economic, historic, societal and artistic. The podcast will feature personal interviews interweaved with soundscape, music and dream sequences.
We will address human histories that span centuries of migration and human development with societies becoming divided, acquiring nationalities and imposing borders.

FEATURE: EOD - An introductory journey with a space artist & a refugee writer.

Empire of Dreams Podcast

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