Re: [microsound] Documenting sound installations

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

hello Trond,
for what it's worth, i have been in a similar quandry
doing live music for dance/theater for some years with
multiple sound sources. one resolution is to make
multichannel works on a dvd. of course then only the
people who have such playback systems can access your
work off-site. there is of course no way to really
capture any site except maybe through a poetic
simulacrum in stereo. i have attempted this in some of
my works. a recent solution to wanting to put out a
work for 4-channel sound was to issue it as a two cd
set to be played back on two separate stereo systems.
(see www.djalma.com click on orphan sounds and seek
description of ENTLARVUNG) obviously the sounds on the
two cds are different. and if someone is confused and
plays them as a two cd set, one after the other, they
don't get your intended sound environment. but this
can averted by engaging in the neccessary evil of
liner notes describing the concept.
best, Jeff Gburek  

--- Trond Lossius <lossius@xxxxxx> wrote:

> For some years now I've been doing a series of sound
> installations in  
> collaboration with other artists, mainly visual
> artists. For a large  
> part the installations have been presented in
> various galleries. I've  
> always found it difficult to document the
> installations. Visually it  
> generally works well to use video, as I've often
> been collaborating  
> with artists using video as a medium. But I find the
> audio part to be  
> really difficult. I've generally been using
> multi-speaker setups of  
> various kinds to position the audience inside the
> sound. Reducing the  
> sound image to stereo is already a major reduction
> of the impression  
> you'll have of the sound as compared to being at the
> site. In  
> addition, the audio recorded at the gallery space
> while the  
> installation is running use to be completely
> useless, containing a  
> lot of disturbances and noise. My sound
> installations generally work  
> with low volumes, as I often like working with sound
> that is barely  
> perceptible. If I instead do a stereo mixdown of the
> sound, the sound  
> on the documentation of course is better, but I'm
> also loosing any  
> sensation of the sound being related to or *in* the
> room. Thus when  
> watching the documentation, it is a much more
> detached experience  
> than if I'm using a recording from the space.
> 
> So I'm wondering: Are there anyone else working on
> sound  
> installations that have found better ways to
> approach this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Trond
> 
>
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