In keeping with World Listening Day, we bring you a video of sound artist Stephen Vitiello speaking at Pop Tech about intimate listening. Though not quite as intimate as the listening you can do here at Sonic; Vitiello speaks about the special attention he pays to the soundscapes he enters and how he reinterprets these sounds into art.
Celebrate your aural environment today on World Listening Day.
Get out your recording device and document the soundscapes you encounter today, whether you are joining a soundwalk, or simply commuting to work. Various projects are open to submissions of recordings gathered today.
The Soundscape Ecology Project at Purdue invites participants to visit their WLD drop event site and submit a short soundscape recording. They will collect information on your soundwalk experiences, soundscape descriptions and (optionally) contact information. The Google Gazetteer tool will associate your recording with a lat,long coordinate in order to map these soundscape recordings.
More info via WLP
Radio Aporee is asking people around the world to send in their World Listening Day recordings to create a sonic snapshot of the world today in the form of a soundmap. Visit the 2010 WLD soundmap.
More info via WLP
Additionally, today you can hear the recordings that were submitted in 2010, broadcast on the radio aporee streaming website.
A special World Listening day broadcast of radio show, O Coleccionador de Sons (The Sound Collector), on Rádio Zero in Portugal, will feature WLD recordings, today 18th July. The show is curated by LuÃs Antero and exclusively dedicated to field recordings.
Canadian Sound Enthusiasts:
July 16 – September 3, 2011
Kicking off on July 16th with a SOUNDwalk to celebrate World Listening Day, New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) presents a summer-long celebration of sound art, The Sound Travels Festival. It will feature indoor and outdoor performances, sound installations, SOUNDwalks and an outdoor sound sculpture. Special events include the Sound Travels Intensive – a 5-day intensive for emerging artists – and the fifth annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. This year’s artist-in-residence is internationally renowned UK artist Jonty Harrison.
“In a world that often focuses too much on the visual, Sound Travels brings about a refreshing change as it presents works by sound artists that extract compelling musicality and wordless dramas from everyday sounds often taken for granted. From this lush auditory experience, audiences author their own imaginary world in their mind’s eye.” – Darren Copeland, Artistic Director, NAISA.
Sound Travels Intensive
Aug 16 to 20, 2011
$175 registration fee
NAISA Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie #252, Toronto
The Sound Travels Intensive is an opportunity for artists, composers and musicians from across Canada and around the world to create and present new work in Toronto, exchange ideas with others, and hone their skills in diverse aspects of sound and electroacoustic practice. Participants must apply by July 15.
5th annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium
August 10 – 13, 2011
$70/$35
Wychwood Theatre and Christie Studio
The 5th annual Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium 2011 is an important opportunity for exchange between diverse Electroacoustic communities and will include a keynote lecture by Sound Travels featured artist Jonty Harrison (Birmingham, UK).
Inspired by the vestibular system of the inner ear, “Tympani Lambada†is the next interactive sculpture from San Francisco artist collective Flaming Lotus Girls. The structures by which we hear and balance will be translated on a grand scale with steel and fire, flame effects, LEDs and sound, creating an experience rich with visceral sensuality. Including a spiral flame fountain modeled on the cochlear, this piece of art will debut at Burning Man 2011 as an impressive 64 foot long scuplture – if the group gains the help they need to make it come alive. Flaming Lotus Girls are raising funds for the project on Kickstarter.
From a distance, bursts of fire outline sensual curves in the sky. Fiery arches intrigue and invite approach. Soaring at impossible angles and creating a slight sense of vertigo, the sculpture’s undulations echo with subtle rumbles and hums. Bulbous shapes on the ground glow red and roar with intense colorful fire flickering in their depths. Tendon-like structures stretch over the interior space of the sculpture, forming an intimate gathering place. Controls scattered throughout allow interaction with fire and light elements, accompanied by sound effects.
Your Kickstarter pledge buys materials, transports the piece, and supports the crew during the on-site building process.
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