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Soundwalk, in company of Myke Dodge Weiskopf, the master of shortwave (see www.myke.me), in the Rub-Al-Khali, known as ‘the Desert of the Deserts’ located in the Arabic Peninsula and shared by UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman.
Seconde Nature is a multidisciplinary Festival dedicated to the most recent creative sound, visual, art and multi-media works in the fields of electronic music, digital art, and “other cultural oddities”.
“Kill The Ego” began as a song, as an epic 40-minute-long poem composed of 10 years of sound recordings captured in New York by Soundwalk between 1998 and 2008. The fragmented memories of poets and dominatrixes, of pimps and prophets, of visionaries and lost children – the gamut of stories from the street: of the most obscure corners, of underground unrest, intimate and universal biographies of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx – Soundwalk has captured and woven together the sounds, conversations, and songs of urbanity. Initiated by Dalbin, this soundtrack of New York City has been represented visually onscreen by the artist Rostarr, who used the sound recordings as a launch for an art series documented by directors Jim Helton and Ron Patane. Inspired by the technique used in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s masterpiece “Le mystère Picasso”, the directors sought to give life to the creative process and gave birth to the aural and visual work that is the film Kill the Ego.
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TICKETS TO WIN
Clark Magazine is giving away free tickets to the Festival, more info : click here
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SCREENINGS : FRIDAY 11 AND SATURDAY 12 OF JUNE, 7PM – 2AM
“Kill The Ego” will be shown along with four other films on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th of June, from 7PM to 2AM, at Fondation Vasarely, Aix-En-Provence.
“Kill the Ego” is available for purchase through the Collectorserie iPhone/iPad application. Collectorserie is a visual and musical works of art collection that was developped by Dalbin in collaboration with mobile agency Clicmobile, with the objective of placing contemporary video and sound creation at the collector’s fingertips.
New York City’s annual festival for contemporary psychogeography, CONFLUX, investigates the everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice. Visual and sound artists, writers, urban adventurers and the public gather for four days to explore their urban environment.
Soundwalk is participating in the user-generated all day Conflux Festival event, ConfluxCity, taking place Sunday September 20th from 10am-6pm.
Soundwalk will be offering “social listening stations” at three specific locations in Chinatown, Meatpacking District and Times Square. At these locations ConfluxCity participants will find a Soundwalker with a pair of headphones inviting them to listen in on Soundwalk’s audio tour created for that neighborhood and providing coupons with free download information.
Social Listening Station Schedule: Sunday Sept 20th Chinatown (12:00-3:oo pm The Luncheonette Cup & Saucer, 89 Canal St.), Meatpacking District (1:00-4:00 pm Hector’s Cafe 44 Little West 12th St.) Times Square (4:00-6:00 pm Smith’s Bar and Restaurant 701 8th Ave).
Free audio tour downloads for these neighborhoods will be available for the full duration of ConfluxCity Festival – 12:01 a.m. Sept 17th – 11:59 pm Sept 20th. Click here to listen to samples and request your free Soundwalk.
