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Extract of a sound recording made along the coast of the Black Sea for the forthcoming Soundwalk Collective piece Medée. Recording made in Odessa, of a man singing songs in Russian about Odessa over a VHF receiver. Click here for more information about Medée. Click here to read The Black Sea Diary, chronicling Soundwalk Collective’s journey from the summer. Photo by Stephan Crasneanscki.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
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Audio extract from 9’11″ by Soundwalk Collective, a two-movement composition based upon the September 11th, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.
Movement One is a journey with an actual New York firefighter on location from the first plane hit, to the fall of the last tower. Movement Two is the enormous silence following the final collapse. It was the closing of the 20th century. All the sounds you hear around you now, belong to the 21st.
Photo of 9’11″ installation on display at Loft in the Red Zone in New York City.
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Soundwalk Collective is back in the studio and in the next phase of creating Medea, the new sonic work based on this summer’s recording voyage around the Black Sea. The Collective is in the process performing a series of live sessions using the raw recordings of voices, distant melodies, and distorted memories. Here is the second excerpt, untouched and straight to tape!
