Sound Localities is a project being developed by Ashley Wong (artist in residence, Pépinières européennes pour jeune artistes and Transcultures, Mons, Belgium) that explores the experience of sound in the city through field recordings and interviews with artists, individuals and organisations in 7 cities: Ghent, Brussels, London, Madrid, Hong Kong and Seoul. The project seeks to produce a wider dialogue in a transcultural space with and through sound as it flows through many complex social and cultural spaces.
Ashley had kindly invited me to submit material, thus I chose a recording that captures a blessing and investiture in remembrance of the Roman Catholic Martyrs of England, given in London during summer 2010. The recording is entitled 'Investiture of the Brown Scapula' and can be found under the 'London' section on the Sound Localities site.
http://soundlocalities.tumblr.com
http://soundlocalities.tumblr.com/post/2175078191/investiture-of-the-brown-scapula
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Locality: is a situated place; a fact or condition of a particular position in space.
Sound Localities is a project that explores the experience of sound in the city through field recordings and interviews with artists, individuals and organisations in 7 cities in the local, region and international space around Mons, Belgium. From Ghent, Brussels, London, Madrid, Hong Kong and Seoul, the project seeks to produce a wider dialogue in a transcultural space with and through sound as it flows through many complex social and cultural spaces. Individuals and organisations are asked to select artists working with sound in the city to contribute field recordings to express something about their city. These sounds are collected and shared online.
Participating artists will be invited to create a mix from the sounds collected from the different cities that will be published in a compilation CD produced by Transcultures in 2011.
Sound Localities is a project produced during a 3-month residency for Pépinières européennes pour jeune artistes and Transcultures. The project will be launched in Dec 2010 as an exhibition called ‘Resonant Cities / Transcultural Soundscapes’ featuring live performances and collaborations from Belgian artists and the contributed sounds from the project.
www.loudspkr.org
www.transcultures.be
www.art4eu.net
