algo de áudio / something of sound
(2000-2009) 
proposição sonora: sons de fins de vácuo – trecho de coleção de ruídos de aberturas de embalagens.

algo de áudio

Offering an intimate space for reflection on how the new sonic environments and the new aural conditions are changing during the pandemic, Il Tempo Sospeso is a radio artwork/ sound installation that reflects the city’s urban soundscape of Den Haag. Many considerations led me to the conception of this composition. These are mainly sociological considerations, reflecting on acoustic ecology/environment issues, how the use of the media has changed and became the primary way of communication in the pandemic period, and how communication and human relations are radically changing. The concept of the composition is based on looped samples, which represent this suspended time we are living in, almost as if we were in a cyclical and repetitive time bubble, without changes and external stimuli. The idea is to produce a piece that never repeats itself, and it is potentially a never-ending composition produced with an algorithmic generative system.  The concept and the content of the piece are mirrored, representing a statement welcoming the idea of the open form.

Il Tempo Sospeso_ Binaural Version

This recording was made using hydrophones borrowed to me by Paulo Dantas. Fairies Lake (Lago das Fadas) is located at Tijuca Forest (Floresta da Tijuca), Rio de Janeiro city. Tascam DR100 MKIII.

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Fairies Lake Tijuca Forest Feb 27 2023 1020 Hydrophones

"Soundscapes reveal a lot about how people think and behave." The field recordist and musician talks about listening culture, repatriating African sounds and his new album with The Bug.

Today's conversation moves away from the dance floor, focusing instead on the soft, ambient soundscapes of the Berlin-based musician Joseph Kamaru—AKA KMRU—whose work has been featured at festivals like CTM, Mutek, Atonal, Horst Music and Arts, Dekmantel, and Unsound; concert halls like The Barbican; and major galleries and site-specific installations around the world.

Kamaru moved to Europe from Nairobi, where he first became interested in music production, and field recordings specifically. As a graduate student in the sonic arts, he learned that the majority of the discourse around sound art practices is specific to Western Eurocentric or occidental ways of thinking. He's since embarked on a mission to use field recording as a means of repatriating African identities that are often left out of institutional archives and grapple with the legacy of colonialism.

In this RA Exchange, Kamaru reflects on the sociopolitical angle of his work, and his observation that listening, by its very nature, is never neutral. He also talks about how civilisation and technology has changed our collective listening habits; how sound sources beyond the human hearing range make their way into his work with the use of electromagnetic microphones; and his new album, Disconnect, made with the musician Kevin Richard Martin (AKA The Bug). Listen to the episode in full.

EX.723 KMRU

Transformações (versão Um Sopro Novo)

Emissão de som a neblina ou Falante a vapor
2017
Leitura de lista (4’13’’)
NOMES PARA O FONÓGRAFO
THOMAS EDISON
1877
 In: USHER, Shaun (org.). Listas Extraordinárias. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2016.

• Proposição sonora apresentada na III Flamboiã – Feira de publicações de artista, no Tralharia, Florianópolis, 2017.

Emissão de som a neblina ou Falante a vapor

Parte da série TOPOGRAFIAS. ‘Topografar’ a música seria vê-la como algo exterior, um sobrevôo de imagens, figuras, trajetórias e lugares virtuais. 
Em lugar deste vôo, A PAISAGEM (1987) expõe uma aterrisagem forçada matéria adentro - uma inútil tentativa de retenção do fluxo temporal. A gravação da soprano Amelita Galli-Curci, feita no início do século XX, presta-se a pesquisas que se iniciam narrativamente, como se a agulha do gramophone penetrasse na massa do suporte de gravação. Debaixo de uma ‘chuva’ de materialidades - que não excluem a da ebonite - passam notas distantes da gravação original, não por acaso da ária ADDIO DEL PASSATO, da TRAVIATA. Disse-me, na época, o Tato Taborda: ‘...estás passando por uma fase muito gótica, meu caro...’. Mas o processo de composição foi pura diversão, quase jazzístico: não muito mais que uma sessão de improvisação em estúdio, em que a maior parte do tempo tinha sido dedicada à montagem de dispositivos no sintetizador (Roland System100), de set-ups nos delays (analógicos), de trechos gravados em fita (dois gravadores Revox bipistas e um Teac 4 pistas), mais um sintetizador DX7. Da mesma época, e como resultado desse mergulho, surgiram (e sumiram) as MINERALOGIAS.

A Paisagem

Colección de titulares y copetes de noticias de diarios y revistas, colectados desde el 2011. Los textos indican relaciones entre humanos y otros animales, involucran vínculos sinuosos entre hecho y ficción. Estoy interesada en el absurdo (y en el humor) de los anuncios, bien como en volver visible/audible el antropocentrismo de algunas de las noticias.

lista de notícias [dream and reality]

Les habitants de Tauary, petit village au coeur de la forêt amazonienne, nous emmènent écouter les sons de leur quotidien tout au long d’une journée. De l'aube en forêt à une balade en pirogue, de l'orage à la nuit, des jeux dans le fleuve à la chasse au crocodile... En constant dialogue avec leur entourage, les habitants imitent les cris des animaux (singes, toucans, aras, colibris...) pour faire entendre leur chant. Cette création est aussi disponible en podcast de 10x3 minutes. 

Nous sommes à Tauary, petit village à 600 km à l’ouest de Manaus, au Brésil. Il faut 14 heures en bateau express, 2,5 jours en bateau 'normal' ou 1 heure d'avion pour atteindre Tefé, la petite ville la plus proche. De là il faut prendre une pirogue à moteur - comptez entre 1h30 et 2h selon la saison et le niveau des eaux - pour remonter le Rio Tefé et arriver ici : https://goo.gl/maps/4UPT3UVz5GwbwmNw5
Une vingtaine de familles vivent là (environ 80 personnes), aucune ne se reconnaissant comme “indigène”. Les habitants sont issus d'un mélange de colons et d'indigènes, installés ici à l’époque de l'exploitation du latex. Il y a une école, un poste de santé avec des médicaments de base, un téléphone public (pas d’autres téléphones, pas de connexion, pas d’internet), un terrain de foot et un de volley. La ressource du village est la plantation de manioc, qui se fait ensuite en farine et se vend en ville. Le village s’auto-régule, et chacun ne peut travailler que 2ha à chaque fois. On ne déforeste donc que le nécessaire malgré toute la forêt qui est là, toute proche. 

Le Français Félix Blume voyage dans le monde entier pour des prises de son documentaire exceptionnelles, ainsi que des ateliers de création sonore. Voir son site remarquable et son entretien épatant.

32 minutes in the Amazonian Rainforest :
The inhabitants of Tauary, a little village in the heart of the Amazon, invite us to listen to their everyday sounds for a day. From sunrise at the forest up to a canoe ride, throughout a stormy night, from playing in the river up to a crocodile hunting… In constant dialogue with their surroundings, they imitate animal shouts (monkeys, toucans, macaws, hummingbirds) so we can listen to their singing.
Many thanks to all the inhabitants of Tauary.

Enregistrements : septembre 17, janvier 19 - Remerciements : à tous les habitants de Tauary - Réalisation & mixage : Félix Blume

Amazônia

20130101

“Stati d’Ansia”, that means “Anxiety Moods” in English, is a study about the dramatic value of the human voice in musical discourse, experimenting with sounds and gestures of the ‘cello. 

A female voice recites a poem titled “C1” by Nanni Balestrini, main figure of the Italian Neo-Avant-Grade poetry, who recently passed away in 2019. “C1” was written with an algorithmic system as the result of assembling multiple texts, and has different levels of interpretation.

The formal structure oscillates around the intelligibility level of the voice, the words are deconstructed, in articulation with the cello that moves in the opposite direction replacing the missing and unintelligible words.

Stati d'Ansia - C1

Teacher;
Musician / Composer / Sound Artist; 
Sound technician (atnll);

Transformações (versão Um Sopro Novo)

Paulo Dantas (atnll)

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