Julia Eckhardt, Q-O2

These are the two places where I'm most often and by being familiar (with sounds and everything else) they became dear to me: my home and my work. I'm sure you recognise which one is which...

Julia Eckhardt 10 1

Julia Eckhardt, Q-O2

These are the two places where I'm most often and by being familiar (with sounds and everything else) they became dear to me: my home and my work. I'm sure you recognise which one is which...


Julia Eckhardt 10 2

Martin Clarke

"It's a recording of the gas fire in my flat. At the moment, this is the coldest November on record; this sound is a constant in my London life."

gasfire

Ashley Wong

These are the bells I hear every morning in Mons, Belgium where I am on residency. I count them each time to know how late I am sleeping. 10am is about the time I know I should get up. The town is small enough that it can be heard throughout. There is snow this year in November, which is extremely rare, reminding me of the winter moods in Canada that surrounds you in the crisp cold air. 

Morning Bells, Mons

Ashley Wong

Mons is a 45minute train ride from Brussels. Trains in Belgium are cheap and towns like Ghent, Antwerp and Liege are near and easy to travel to. It is also very close to the border of France and Netherlands. I go to Brussels at least once or twice a week. The train comes about once an hour. I am often waiting at the station with the smell of cheap gaufres (Belgian waffels) cooking behind me. There have been labour strikes and snow/bad weather so many of the trains have been cancelled or delayed. 

Mons Station

Ashley Wong

Outside the station as well as in the Grand Place are many carnival games. They sell hotdogs, waffels, candies and have several rides, fun houses and games where you can win electronics and toys etc. They are full of lights and loud techno music. It is a bit trashy. Mons is also quite a working class town. I walked into one of the coin games and slot machine booths where you can win stuffed animals. There is a mixture of people, unbearably loud french pop music and coins - which is contrasted to the grey and everyday street sounds outside. 

Slot Machine Games

Stijn Dickel 

4'33 is a project initiated by Stijn Dickel and people at Aifoon in Ghent asking people in different cities to contribute recordings of 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence outside your window in references' to Cage's notable work on silence. 

This is a recording from outside of the window at Aifoon based on Nieuwevaart 117a in Ghent. 

www.aifoon.org


433 Ghent

Sébastien Biset
Phase III
"Field Rec. Mons-Hainaut Assemblage" is an assemblage of sound captured in the city of Mons and the surrounding areas in the region. This track is less anecdotal, more abstract, but also more "musical" in the sounds used. By saturating the microphone in front of a loud sound event, produces auditory violence in the hearing of modern electric equipment. The lost notes are softly played and sampled combined with the profound resonance of a piano reverberating in a large venue large. Despite the abstraction of the final result, the sounds are left to express a particular mood.


Field Rec. Mons-Hainaut Assemblage

Sébastien Biset
Phase III
"Field Rec. Mons PHASE III" consists of a series of fragments selected from real abuses in our experience from the first Phase III presentation in Mons. For me, the intention was to collect sounds including anecdotes, reflecting the different spaces and environments we would come upon in the city: churches, bars, parks, places, shops, university campus, cemetery, etc.. Beyond capturing the real, it was also an attempt to extract sound from the world, including through intentional resonances (i.e. objects thrown into a shed), reflecting the energy at work in a sound event. In the piece, there are also fragments of conversations and a sections of "speculation" contextualized.

FIELD REC. MONS PHASE III

José Luis Espejo

Pescados Alofer, Calle Esgrima

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