Artist: Pedro Memmelsdorf for Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Year: 2011;
Diffusion: Mirrored Stereo
Duration: 10'13''
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On Tuesday 14 June 2011, to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of celebrated Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (14 June 1986 – 14 June 2011), the Fundación Internacional Jorge Luis Borges and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini opened The Borges Labyrinth, a reconstruction of the maze that architect Randoll Coate designed in the writer’s honour. The opening ceremony will feature audio works which juxtaposed the roman chant Alleluia: O Pimenon ton Israhil against interviews with Randoll Coate and readings by Jorge Luis Borges. (Alleluia: O Pimenon ton Israhil was performed by Ensemble Organum).
Artist: Dionisio González
Year: 2009
Diffusion: 10.2 Channel Audio
Duration: 19'28''
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A massive audio installation that was the protagonist of Gonzalez's site specific sculpture in the restored chapel at the Museo Patio Herreriano.
The work sought to 'explode' Arnold Schönberg's seminal work Transfigured Night, and aimed to animate both the space and the sculpture by providing dynamics and a narrative to the looming frozen form. Source material was drawn from recordings of Schönberg's work and extracts from the Dehmel poem which originally inspired the composer’s work Verklärte Nacht. The sound pieced together used the natural acoustics of the space to filter and reverberate the sound and featured specially recorded string parts.
Exhibited:
2009-10. Museo Patio Herreriano. Valladolid, Spain. Dionisio Gonzalez’s installation Transfigured Schönberg.
Year: 2009
Experiments with non-Newtonian fluid/speaker cones/signal generators.
By mixing cornflour with a heavy liquid it is possible to create three-dimensional manifestations like those Margaret Watts Hughes generated with her Eidophone. The frequency of the sound initially forms Chladni patterns in the thick mixture, but as the volume is increased these rise into finger-like protrusions that act like the Hydra, generating new fingers as they collapse.
Published:
2009. Anish Kapoor. Unconformity and Entropy. (p.246-247). Features the experiments into 3-Dimensional Sound as a reference in the Apophenic Appendix.
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Artist: Lara Baladi
Year: 2008
Duration: 19'
Diffusion: 4.1 Channel Audio
Composed in collaboration with Ángel López de la Llave
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Movement One
Movement Two
Movement Three
The audio component of Lara Baladi’s ephemeral installation Borg El Amal, Winner of the ‘Grand Nile Award’ at the 2008 Cairo Biennale.
By examining the melodic shifts found naturally within donkeys’ braying, a sinfonietta in three movements was elaborated. Original recordings of brays were digitally processed, edited and otherwise ‘tuned’ to lead the composition as the principal singing voice.
Idea and Direction - Lara Baladi
Symphony inspired by Henryk Gorecki's symphony 3#, op36 1976
Composition: Nathaniel Robin Mann and Ángel López de la Llave
Arrangement, Processing and Production:
Nathaniel Robin Mann
Instruments recorded at:
Play Art Studios Madrid by Andy Dufill
Soprano: Mónica Muñoz
Flute, Reed & Wind Instruments: Jose Manuel Pizarro
Cello & Viola da Gamba: Ángel López de la Llave
Violin: Dacian Marin
Donkeys: Burrolandia, Tres Cantos Madrid
Exhibited:
2008. Cairo Biennale. Afroplis, City, Media Art at the Rautenstrach-Joest Museum, Cologne, Germany.
Environment and Object in Recent African Art at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, New York, USA.
Audio CD published with the book HOPE by Lara Baladi.
Artist: Dionisio González
Year: 2008
Diffusion: 4.1 Channel Audio
Duration: 19'08''
Simulated audio of a slow-motion explosion to accompany the video.
Exhibited:
2008 ARCO Madrid. Galeria Max Estrella.
Artist: Nathaniel Robin Mann
Year: 2008
Duration: 15'
Format: 5.1 Channel installation
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Fifteen minute context-specfic sound composition designed to accompany the work Islamic Mirror by Anish Kapoor.
To generate source material several experiments were designed to exploit the innate acoustic properties of the sculpture itself:
- The hexagon mirror dish was transformed into a huge microphone and subsequently induced to feed-back upon itself.
- The 4475 individual hexagons from the sculpture were cast against a concrete surface to create a cascading micro-tonal cacophony.
- The reflective properties of the concave dish were exploited to repeatedly reflect and re-record sounds: effectively using the dish as a giant acoustic filter.
The final work, which recreated aurally a spectator's exploration of the sculpture, also heavily referenced the presence of water in the writings of Sufi Philosopher Ibin Arabe.
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Year: 2007
Duration: Variable
Diffusion: Stereo
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Audio recordings of Factum Arte’s flatbed printer were made during the production of a 1:1 scale facsimile of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. The sound of the printer's mechanisms were ‘tuned’ to the notes of Leonardo's ‘secret requiem’ as theorised by Giovanni Maria Pala: his conjecture suggests that Leonardo encoded musical notes in his placement of the bread rolls within the painting.
Artist: Marc Quinn
Year: 2006
Duration: 26'01''
Diffusion: Stereo
In collaboration with Alfonso Reverón, Adam Lowe and Marc Quinn.
Video Installation in the exhibition: Genesis: Life at the end of the information age at the Centraal Museum Utrecht.
This work examined the various states and processes in the creation of a large bronze sculpture: an exploded popcorn kernel, which had been digitally scanned and scaled in 3D.
Through the soundtrack we endeavored to transmit a sense of process, proportion, dimension, mass, force and texture that moving image alone is incapable of fully rendering. Diverse experimental techniques were developed during a two week residency at the bronze foundry; which included embedding microphones in the moulds and casts at various stages of the creation of the sculpture and re-interpreting the 3D data as audio.
Exhibited:
2007. Centraal Museum Utrecht within the exhibition:Genesis: Life at the end of the information age.
Artist: Lara Baladi
Year: 2008/2010
Format: 5.1 Channel Installation
Duration: 13'28''
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Sound installation to provide an embracing backdrop to Lara Baladi's exhibition.
Readings from coffee cups weave a subtle and moving narrative in Arabic and French cultures upon a shifting strata of textural sounds sourced from coffee related paraphernalia.
Exhibited:
2008. Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival. Bluecoat gallery. Liverpool. Lara Baladi’s installation Diary of the Future. Sound design.
2010. Århus Kunstbygning Aarhus Denmark. Lara Baladi’s installation: Diary of the Future. Sound design.
Artist: Dionisio González
Year: 2010
Diffusion: Mirrored 2.1 Channel Installation
Duration: 10'16''
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Soundtrack to accompany Gonzalez's Hanoi inspired installation of exhaust pipes and smoke. The work created a rhythmic and pulsating symphony of Vietnamese moped/motorcycle exhausts sounds, and contrasted them with the traditional Vietnamese instrument the “Khene”.
Exhibited:
2010. Novalis Contemporary Art. Turin Italy. Dionisio Gonzalez’s installation Organogramas
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