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Extract from Soundwalk’s upcoming Bessarabia Ghost Tapes, a soundpiece using the voices of Holocaust survivors from the Centropa Foundation with 1940s era ’78s collected in a free market in Bessarabia. Photo of Soundwalk’s Dug Winningham editing in the Soundwalk Studio.
Ever seen a record actually get cut by a machine that cuts grooves in vinyl? Or have you ever heard a record that only had noise on it? See it and hear it here! Watch Dug Winningham of Soundwalk show you how it is done. Sound mix by Dan Flosdorf. Directed by Jim Helton. Also featuring Kamran Sadeghi and Stephan Crasneanscki.
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Musical study for the upcoming piece, Bessarabia Ghost Tapes, using a 1940s era 78 collected along the journey in Moldavia. By Dug WInningham. Photo from the Centropa Foundation archives.
This week’s transmission is an extract from Death Must Die, which, like La Brulure, is one in a series of limited-edition Soundwalk releases with custom-designed letterpress packaging.
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“Death Must Die is a sound piece that begins before the rising of the sun and reproduces the cycle of a day in Varanasi… Benares, Kashi; a sacred city, where death is everywhere, bathed in light. It is here that the Hindus come to die and burn their dead. It is here, on the river’s edges, that the wrath and the grace of Shiva are expressed.
The sound intoxicating as death itself, it is a hammering song of the dead, playing until one is transfixed. It’s the murmuring of the Ganges… the power of silence.
[Death Must Die] revisits the cycles between life and death, using sound as a metaphor: the laughter of children playing, dogs barking – it contrasts the extreme accumulation of bells, the infernal trance of religious songs, the peculiar sound of bodies burning upon wood… the voice of a young nun coming from an ashram in the silence of the night.”
We hope you enjoy this second installment in the summer Transmissions series.
« Le Son du Nous » by Philippe Starck & Soundwalk (Sample 1) from Dalbin on Vimeo.
Check this video from the beginning of “Le Son du Nous”, the show Soundwalk and Philippe Starck performed at MAC Créteil‘s Festival EXIT last March. Surf the blog for more information about “Le Son du Nous”: photos, press clips, audio samples…
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Photo credit: Yves Malenfer for Label Dalbin
We were so pleased that so many of you turned up for Kill the Ego last Friday at Centre Pompidou, as a part of their Hors Pistes festival – both screenings were sold out and received with enthusiasm. Thanks to all of you for your support, and we hope you enjoyed the show!
Following the 8:00 screening was a discussion in which the artists spoke to the audience about the inspiration and motivation driving the film’s creation. According to the sound designers, among them Stephan Crasneanscki and Dug Winningham, the film plays with a recording’s unique ability to alter the reality of a sound: temporally, by allowing it to be heard long after it has in fact ceased, and contextually, by layering and mixing it with other sounds to create a new sonic text. The painter, Rostarr, commented on the project’s personal value to him as a means of expressing the important role that New York City has played in his life throughout the years he has called it home.
It was a great evening, and we’re looking forward to next event with Philippe Starck at the International Exit Festival in Paris later this month. Stay tuned for more details!
Juxtapoz #108 | January 2010
Soundwalk’s Kill the Ego has been listed as one of Juxtapoz Magazine’s Top 100 Moments of 2009.
“Kill the Ego started as a song [of New York] by the sound design team Soundwalk. Insert an epic song [built over ten years of fragmented memories, voices of pimps and engineers, poets and domanitrixes, visionaries and children, hope and sorrow] into Rostarr’s psyche. After some internalizing, mixing with their own hopes, dreams and aesthetic vision, the result is ‘Kill the Ego’.
“The film is a remarkable mix of motion-painting, capturing street sounds, and it plays as this incredible narrative . . .amazing.” – Eric Pricco
Kill the Ego will be shown at Centre Pompidou, Paris, in February 2010.
View the video here.
Soundwalk‘s collage excerpt, from a series of Berlin nightlife field recordings, features noises, distortions, low frequencies, and quieter spaces… mostly recorded at Panorama, Week End and an underground bunker club. This excerpt includes field recordings from the restroom.
Image: Dug Winningham
Audio: Stephan Crasneanscki
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“The river Ganga itself cascades from its home in the Milky Way down onto Shiva’s head and, from his head, down onto the earth. In this way, Shiva represents the tangential point between the unphysical and the physical world. The physical world, which you and I live in, is one in which name and form are particularly important. The nonphysical world is one for which far more important is the unlimited consciousness, from which name and form have substantially been purged. Shiva is usually represented as sitting in the posture known as Ardha Malinda. This means his eyes are half-closed, which allows him to be aware of what is going on outside of him just as, at the same time, he is aware of the ocean of consciousness that exists behind his eyes that is not defiled or disturbed by any kind of action from the outside.” – Robert Svoda
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Noted DJ, Cheb-i-Sabbah, mixes this unique 70 minute sonic journey of India made with Soundwalk field recordings. Available to Soundwalk fans here, in five distinct audio excerpts.
Check it: INDIA: Soundscape and Varasani City of Light Audio Tour
Image: Dug Winningham Audio: Soundwalk and Cheb i Sabbah