Re: [microsound] Documenting sound installations

[Trond Lossius <lossius@xxxxxx>]

Thanks for all the replies.

I'm going to spend Monday documenting an installation that is  
currently running at Bergen kunsthall, Norway. I'll attempt to try as  
many different approaches I can to see what material I'll get and how/ 
if it's working. I'm already thinking in terms of recreating the  
sound using ambisonics or Spat. I'll also try to crank the volume way  
up to increase the signal to noise rate. The problem about this is  
that for some installations/spaces I've experienced that the balance  
between different layers of the sound change completely with volumes,  
probably due to the generally less than ideal acoustic properties of  
most gallery spaces.

I'm also thinking that maybe I should do some recordings of the  
ambient sound at the space with none of my sound running, and try  
doing a studio mix and add some ambience to it.

Documenting using surround sound seems a good idea, particularly if I  
could burn to DVD with the option to use stereo or surround sound.

> ps - i was talking with kurt not too long ago about your  
> installation at
> diapason in january. what are the dates? i'm doing a west coast tour
> the first week of january but will be back on the 8th. i'd love to see
> it.

We decided to postpone it. We would only be able to run the  
installation for 2 1/2 Saturdays, so it hardly seemed worth the  
effort. I hope that we will be able to do it sometime later, and have  
the space every Saturday for the duration of the exhibition instead  
of sharing with other projects. Apart from that I'm involved in a  
stage production by a Norwegian ensemble named Verdensteatret that is  
in fact performing at PS122 in NY today and tomorrow. I'll try to  
keep it short here out of respect for the list rules, but there's  
more info here:

http://www.bek.no/Members/lossius/lostblog/637
http://www.pluto.no/doogie/verdensteatret/


Best,
Trond




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