This is a playlist of sound art interpretations of Anne-F Jacques' text score "Piece for objects found in the street" realized for NAISA's celebration of Art's Birthday 2021.  NAISA is New Adventures in Sound Art. Enjoy more albums and playlists on soundcloud.com/naisa or at naisa.ca.  You can view a video of Anne-F Jacques' own interpretation of the piece at https://youtu.be/lbKPTOHgXkM

Thanks to the many contributors and participants of this project.  Happy 1,000,058th Birthday Art!

Piece for objects found in the street
Text score for Art’s Birthday by Anne-F Jacques

Even though Art's Birthday 2021 has passed NAISA welcomes more interpretations of this piece. The instructions below suggest a way to perform and record an audio piece using found objects. You will need a recording device (digital recorder, phone, etc) and headphones. The completed piece can either be an audio or video file of 5 minutes maximum, and uploaded to a media sharing location (YouTube or Soundcloud). Share the link to your realization by email to outreach at naisa dot ca. You can also decide to keep it as a private experiment.

 1.   Go for a walk. Look around for abandoned or unclaimed objects. You may consider getting yourself a coffee. Bring back:

   - a disposable coffee cup
   - a dense heavy object
   - a long, thin object
   - another object of any shape or characteristic that interests you

2. Place the cardboard coffee cup over the microphone(s) of your recorder or phone, covering it/them if possible. You may use one of your hands to keep the cup in place, or find another way of securing it. Start recording.

3. Gently roll the dense object on the cup, attempting to have every face of the object be in contact with every face of the cup (not at the same time).

4. Remove the cup, replace it with the plastic lid secured over the mic. Insert the long thin object in the drinking hole of the lid and slide it in and out.

5. Remove the lid. Open the closest window. Do something with the last object (or do nothing with it).

6. Stop the recording.

7. Edit and Mix as necessary, and if you wish, share as instructed above.

Art's Birthday 2021 - Piece for objects found in the street

NAISA project 

Piece for objects found in the street (2021)
by Anne-F Jacques

realised by Ryoko Akama on 10th January
objects collected between Almondbury Village and Huddersfield town in the midst of national lock down 2021.

My usual scavenging people's skips and picking up litters from street ceased in April 2020. It was an important life routine. In the meantime, I walk more in the deep woods from small to large. 

Objects used here were collected during my one hour walk. not too perfect but did the tasks. 

One thing impossible was 'take-out coffee' so an old and small cardboard box with a lid was used.

Piece For Objects Found In The Street

Music Concrete, Noise, Minimal. For Art’s 1 000 058th birthday and Anne-F

o.t. (pour Anne - F.)

Based on a text score by Anne-F Jacques as part of Art's Birthday 2021 with NAISA. Sounds recorded with mics inside a tin can and open placement. Found objects. Post production - noise reduction only, no effects, no EQ, no compression.

Sounds from a can - Art's Birthday

For Anne-F Jacques "piece for objects found in the street"

1. Go for a walk. Look around for abandoned or unclaimed objects. You may consider getting
yourself a coffee. Bring back:
- a disposable coffee cup
- a dense heavy object
- a long, thin object
- another object of any shape or characteristic that interests you
2. Place the cardboard coffee cup over the microphone(s) of your recorder or phone, covering
it/them if possible. You may use one of your hands to keep the cup in place, or find another
way of securing it. Start recording.
3. Gently roll the dense object on the cup, attempting to have every face of the object be in
contact with every face of the cup (not at the same time).
4. Remove the cup, replace it with the plastic lid secured over the mic. Insert the long thin
object in the drinking hole of the lid and slide it in and out.
5. Remove the lid. Open the closest window. Do something with the last object (or do nothing
with it).
6. Stop the recording.
7. Edit as necessary, and if you wish, share as instructed in the introduction.

on my walk, i picked up a book from the library (Tronti's Workers and Capital), a coffee (cup+lid) and a long dry piece of grass.

tronti coffee cup long grass -piece for objects found in the street

Realization of a text score by Anne-F Jacques for Art's Birthday 2021. The text score required one to use a take out coffee cup and lid over top of a microphone or portable audio recorder - in a sense, taking the place of a contact microphone. I didn't have a paper coffee cup on hand so I used a portable coffee thermos.  The last part of the score asks to open the window or door, allowing some outside sound in.  However, the day of the recording the sound ambience was very quiet - mid-winter in the country.  So this last part is difficult to discern other than the playing of the objects is captured through air transmission rather than through the material of an object such as coffee thermos.

Realization of Anne-F Jacques' "Piece for objects found in the Street"

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is a Canadian non-profit organization that produces performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. Included in its productions are: Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, Cross Waves and SOUNDplay. 
NAISA's Soundcloud page features the Deep Wireless online compilations. recordings of past performances, and select editions of its Making Waves radio program for WGXC at the Wavefarm in Acra, NY.