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Shadow Walks in the USA
Viv Corringham
These compositions were created from recordings gathered during five artist residencies in the USA in 2006 and 2007. They are based on environmental sounds, my own singing in location, and conversations with people who took me on their special walks in these five places.
Shadow-walks is an ongoing project, which involves three main elements: walking with others, listening to environmental sound, and my own improvised singing. The project developed through an interest in our relationship with familiar environments. When we walk through a particular location frequently, I wonder how that affects our psyche, and how we affect the place. James Joyce wrote that places remember events, and I found this idea very interesting that everything that happens leaves traces that we might be able to sense. If, throughout a lifetime, a person walks through certain places repeatedly, along the same route, does that ground retain traces of the person's own history and memories? In a sense, Shadow-walks are an attempt to make a person's traces audible.
In each new place, I ask local inhabitants to take me on a special walk, a walk that has been repeated many times and has distinct meaning or significance for that person. An initial walk with the person along their selected route, in which environmental sounds and conversations are recorded, is followed by my solo walk in which I attempt to sense my previous companion's traces on the walk and to make this audible through improvised singing in the location. These recordings are then taken back to my studio, where I edit them together to become the final work, the Shadow-walk. Through my improvisations and the final compositions, I am trying to convey people's special relationship with familiar places and also how that links to the interior landscape of personal history, memory and association.
I am very grateful to everyone who has shared a walk with me.
5 Tracks:
1. At the end of the road - 9:36
2. Walking across from Manhattan - 9:00
3. In the machine - 10:01
4. Hometown - 8:54
5. Always the water - 8:12 LISTEN
Nile Night
Here is the MP3 download version of the Nile Night CD which accompanies Ione's book Nile Night:Remembered Texts from the Deep.
'A sonic trace of collaborative performances with the composer Pauline Oliveros, recorded in the azure of Cassis, France, at the Camargo Foundation.'
Complete MP3 includes 15 Tracks:
Deep Listening
The First Night in Aswan - LISTEN
Gift in Upper Egypt
Dozing
Your Beads
Mirage
Locks of Esna
Edge of Dreams
Initiation Notes
Dear Thunder
Ferry Across the Nile
Stand Here
Remembered
The Labyrinth
Lord Kitchener Smiles
James Ilgenfritz and Pauline Oliveros Improvisations
Five Improvisations - James Ilgenfritz & Pauline Oliveros
Ghost Dance Trio
Pauline Oliveros with Shoko Hikage & Toyoji Tomita (solos, duos, and trio) - Pauline Oliveros - accordion/voice, Shoko; Hikage - koto, Toyoji Tomita - trombone. Meridian Music: Composers In Performance, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA September 7, 2001 Total time: 55:17 Note: all proceeds from this sale go to Toyoji Tomita's family. (mp3)
Tele-Colonization
Tintinnabulate Ensemble
Pauline Oliveros, Director
SoundWIRE Ensemble
Chris Chafe, Director
A group improvisation based on a music concept and adaptive sound scapes by Jonas Braasch with video design by Bart Woodstrup
Tele-Colonization is a compositional concept for a semistructured group improvisation for two or more co-located ensembles. It was recorded during the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) in Montreal on June 26, 2007, where the work was performed by two ensembles: Tintinnabulate and SoundWIRE. The main site was located in Tanna Schulich Hall at McGill University. Members of the Tintinnabulate ensemble performed in Montreal under the guidance of Pauline Oliveros. Three remote sites contributed to the concert: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with members from Tintinnabulate, Stanford University and KAIST in Seoul, South Korea. The SoundWIRE ensemble, directed by Chris Chafe, performed at the latter two locations.
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