My one minute composition inspired by the paragraph below was my first try using Audacity and exploring sound art approach. 

"Marco Polo describes a bridge, stone by stone. “But which is the stone that supports the bridge?” Kublai Khan asks. “The bridge is not supported by one stone or another,” Marco answers, “but the line of the arch that they form.” Kublai Khan remains silent, reflecting. Then he adds: “Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me.” Polo answers: “Without the stones there is no arch.”

This track was made for academical purposes. Please let me know if you intend to use or exhibit on a new project. 

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Nanda Dias

one minute (the bridge fall)

Composer: Nanda Dias

Sound culture assignment - winter semester 2012 - HfK Bremen

Time

A Remiix minus experiment: a winter day while travelling from Bremen to Bremerhaven.

horror train experiment

A Remiix minus experiment: a winter day, train back from Bremerhaven to Bremen.

train back experiment

Conceptual sound art inspired by 'The Word 'Hurricane'" by the french duo Air. 
Final version.

The Word 'Hurricane' [revisited]

Sound poetry based on "Erinnerung an die Marie A." by Bertolt Brecht and its English version also recorded by David Bowie "Remembering Marie A.".

This composition is a concept based on the koan: "If you extinguish sense and sound — what do you listen to?" 

I listen to my own thoughts and what is recorded in my memory. 


Remembering Marie A (re-edit)

How does the city dynamics influences our perception of time passing? How the types of transport (going by bike, by tram, by bus, by car), the speed of vehicles, the different periods of a day (early morning, mid day, rush hour) affect our perception of time? Cities are inhabited by this "life symphony" made by repetition of sounds which are the result of ordinary everyday moves. Can we acknowledge such sonic objects as time counter objects? Do they help us to perceive the time passing?

This is a mix of ordinary city moves. How they can portray our perception of time passing?  

Field recording and mix made by Nanda Dias, in Bremen, Germany, Winter 2013. 

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