Well – what a day. It was freezing cold in London and elsewhere, but the Russolo 100th anniversary celebrations gathered interest from around the globe. In London The Neo Futurist Collective headed by myself performed Cartet to a dedicated...
“We must enlarge and enrich more and more the domain of musical sounds. … This need and this tendency can be totally realised only through the joining and substituting of noises to and for musical sounds. “ (Russolo 1913,...
Today is an auspicious day! One hundred years ago today, futurist artist and musician Luigi Russolo published the Art of Noises manifesto as a letter to fellow composer Francesco Balilla Pratella. It is a document that has resonated down...
Reflecting on several installation works presented at last month’s MONA FOMA (Festival of Music and Art), this post will consider works by Susan Philipsz, Robin Fox, and Vicky Browne and Darren Seltmann in terms of ‘hearing in sound’. In...
The first session of Day II is centered around the definition and practices of ‘Recording the Urban Field’. Peter Cusack is first to introduce a recent experience as artist-in-residence in Berlin, and to point out just how much inhabiting...
Day I at the In the Field symposium packed a lot into a tight schedule of presentations, listening sessions and walking tours. The queue snaked out onto the piazza of the British Library, under a blue sky and the...
The final in this 3 speakers-3 questions build up to the Symposium is with Udo Noll, the founder of Radio Aporee. I first met Udo during a Sounds of Europe workshop in Prague earlier this year, where I had...
Next to tell us a little more about the Symposium and her own relationship with field recording is Cheryl Tipp, Curator of Natural Sounds at the British Library and one of the organisers of this event. In addition to her curatorial work,...
Over the next four days, as we build-up to In the Field (15th and 16th Feb), I will be catching up with some of the organisers and speakers of the Symposium to ask them 3 quick questions on their...
From the Field at In the Field… It’s nearly here! The In The Field symposium, which promises to be an unmissable event for all field recording professionals, will take place in London next week – on 15th and 16th...
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