Photo by Hadley Hudson, taken at the Soundwalk studio in New York City.
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HADLEY HUDSON STILL LIFE, SOUNDWALK STUDIO #3
Thursday, November 17, 2011
SNOWDAY
Thursday, January 13, 2011
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Sound collage from the first snow of 2011, New York City.
ULYSSES ||| REHEARSE ||| PERFORM – A FILM BY JIM HELTON
Thursday, December 23, 2010
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Still image from the video ULYSSES ||| REHEARSE ||| PERFORM by Jim Helton, screening tonight at Kaplan’s Project No3 in Napoli. See a short preview here, available in full feature length soon.
KILL THE EGO AT VENICE’S CIRCUITO OFF FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, August 13, 2010
As we mentioned briefly in our last post, Kill the Ego will be screened on September 4, 2010, at the prestigious Circuito Off Venice International Short Film Festival in Venice. The festival program describes the film thus: “This film is the encounter between the work of American painter Rostarr and sound recordings that Soundwalk did in New York between 1998 and 2008. Rostarr captured the sound material and placed in matter in motion and color the words of fragmented memories, poets and prophets, visionaries and lost children. A story, a tribute to the city, is emerging in the assembly of these micro-narratives.”
Head here for a preview of the film.
PRACTICAL INFO
Screening: 5:30 P.M., 4 September, 2010 | Auditorium Santa Margherita Venezia
Click here to find the auditorium on the map.
For more information about the Circuito Festival, check them out on Twitter and Facebook.
SOUNDWALK IN LE NOUVEL OBS’ LIFESTYLE BLOG
Friday, June 25, 2010
This thursday, Camille Kiejman, editor of Le Nouvel Observateur‘s fashion and lifestyle blog “En mode Libre” talks about one of her “coup de coeur” of the year, namely the soundwalks. After a quick description of the origins and concept of Soundwalk, she reviews the different tours that are available in Paris : Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Le Marais, Le Palais Royal, Belleville, Pigalle. Having tried out all the Parisian Soundwalks herself, she offers an authentic overview of her impressions and gives out her own recommandations about the tours.
“Soundwalk is a really unique experience, a way of looking at the city and travelling in just one hour, but also a way to learn things and get away from everything. My advice : do it together with someone else, it gives the impression to be plugged into a secret frequency and to escape from the nervous spin of the everyday city life.”
Read Camille Kiejman’s article on Le Nouvel Observateur’s blog (in French)
More info about the tours on Soundwalk’s website
Have a look at Soundwalk’s tours catalogue in the Soundwalk iPhone App
SOUNDWALK TAKES YOU ON A FREE TOUR THIS MONDAY !
Sunday, June 13, 2010
To celebrate the beginning of summer, Soundwalk offers you one free tour to choose from the Soundwalk iPhone App catalogue.
In Paris or New York, visit the neighbourhood of your choice, to the sound of the voice of a celebrity with whom you will discover the city in a whole new way. Secret spots, places you can’t miss, insider’s tips… For one hour, walk in the footsteps of a guide unlike any other.
Saint Germain des Prés with French actress Virginie Ledoyen, New York’s Ground Zero with author Paul Auster, the birth of Hip-Hop in the Bronx with rappers Jazzy Jay and Afrika Bambaataa.
The Soundwalk iPhone App is free. In the app, each tour can be downloaded in both demo (which gives you access to the first two chapters) and full versions (4,99€ / $5.99).
On Monday June, 14th, Soundwalk offers you one audio tour in full version for free (instead of 4.99€/5.99$) !
> Install the Soundwalk application on Apple’s AppStore
> Watch the application demo video on Youtube
> Watch the trailers of Soundwalk’s audio-tours on Vimeo
Promotion also available on www.appgratuites.com
SOUNDWALK IN FRENCH MORNING: MELDING JOY & FEAR
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
French Morning, a French online news magazine based in New York City, has featured Stephan Crasneanscki in a May 18 article about the inspiration behind his creation of Soundwalk and why Soundwalk is different from any other audio guide series. The magazine describes Soundwalk’s stages of incubation this way: “Like any great invention, this one began with a madness among friends. Nearly twenty years ago, Stephan Crasneanscki arrived in New York from France to study at NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. His French friends regularly visited him in his “dilapidated loft” in the Lower East Side, and, ever the good host, he provided neighborhood guides for them.” Upon deciding to turn these guides into audio walks, consisting of a tape of directions, practical information, and more, the magazine quotes Crasneanscki in remembering, “I had [the listeners] play a role, perform a scavenger hunt or enter friends’ houses, climb up to roofs, take off layers of clothing or buy things.”
Now, with a cache of successes marked by names like Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Philippe Starck, and the Louvre, French Morning cites Crasneanscki in continuing to insist upon the importance of the human element at the heart of Soundwalk tours, both existing and in development: “I am not interested in the history of the city in general because there are a million guides for that. What we’re searching for in our Soundwalks is something deeply felt, the thrills of joy and of fear.”
Behind each guide, continues French Morning, are “months and months of editing, timing, assembly and testing.” But, as the city changes, they inquire, in what ways does Soundwalk attempt or not attempt to change along with it? In response, Crasneanscki states, “Like a flower wilts, places close. I’m not looking to reinvigorate these places; the idea is that when a walk dies, it dies. Happily, certain things will never fade, like the Jewish element of Williamsburg. The force of the Hasidic Jews – it is endurance!”
The article closes in mentioning Soundwalk’s and Ulysses’ Syndrome’s presence at the Universal Shanghai Expo 2010, which we’re also very excited about.
Thanks to French Morning for the coverage!
Download the Lower East Side Soundwalk (mp3)
Download the Williamsburg Hasidic Soundwalks (mp3 or iPhone app)
STEPHAN CRASNEANSCKI FOR LACHAINETELE
Monday, March 8, 2010
Interview du créateur du collectif Soundwalk, Stephan Crasneanscki
The French webchannel Lachainetel.tv has just interviewed Soundwalk founder Stephan Crasneanscki about Soundwalk’s beginnings, Le Son du Nous, the Exit Festival at MAC Créteil, the Ulysses Syndrome, and what Crasneanscki considers to be his own individual sound.
For English readers: a brief summary of the interview -
On SOUNDWALK: ["I began by making synchronized audio tours of my favorite places in New York City using my own voice, for my friends...the tours then evolved into a way to enter into the life of another person for an hour and see the city through their eyes, while following the narrative of their story."]
On LE SON DU NOUS: ["The idea is to create these three movements of sound - natural and organic sounds existing before humanity, internal sounds of the human body, then sounds created by humans' influence on their environment, both small & large: a spoon against a glass, the sound of a building being constructed or crumbling to the ground...to lead us together to find the true Sound of Us."]
On MAC Créteil’s EXIT FESTIVAL: ["An interesting and exciting platform for experimental projects in art and design, where creatives like Starck and Soundwalk can meet and collaborate...."]
ULYSSES SYNDROME: ["The project entails capturing Hertzian frequencies on the Mediterranean Sea, like fishermen have snared fish throughout history, and melding the sounds into a 24-hour audio collage, resonant of the 24 songs of Homer."]
On his INDIVIDUAL SOUND: ["Since I work with sound as a material every day, in the end I prefer silence, but among sounds my favorites are natural: the sounds of the body, of breath, and of nature - of wind, of falling rain...."]
Click here to tell us about your individual sound and WIN TICKETS to LE SON DU NOUS with Philippe Starck at MAC Créteil! Also watch for more interviews, sound clips, and exclusive sneak-peaks at the show during the next week!
KILL THE EGO AT CENTRE POMPIDOU A SUCCESS!
Monday, March 1, 2010
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!
“KILL THE EGO” AT CENTRE POMPIDOU: 10 TICKETS TO WIN!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Soundwalk is very pleased to announce the screening of its movie “KILL THE EGO“ at Centre Pompidou’s Hors Pistes 2010: Un Autre Mouvement des Images festival in Paris on February 26.
Since 2006, the Hors Pistes festival has, “in examining new usages of contemporary imagery, shown the ruptures and departures that nourish traditional forms of film and narration. For this 5th edition, a double device illustrates the abundance and authority of images. The contemporary world firstly appears in the screened works, through the uncommon, unconventional and asserted vision of international artists.”
“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. 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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WIN TICKETS TO “KILL THE EGO” AT CENTRE POMPIDOU!
We are giving away ten tickets to the screening of “KILL THE EGO” at Centre Pompidou in Paris. The contest will run from February 10-18. To win a ticket, leave a comment on this blog post – at the end of the contest period we will select ten winners at random!
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SCREENING: 26 February 2010, 20:00, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Tickets available for sale before the screening at the Centre Pompidou ticket counter for 6€ (4€ reduced price).
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COLLECTOR SERIE | Launched by Label Dalbin, 21 March 2010
“KILL THE EGO” will also be the first piece available for purchase through the Collector Serie application for iPhone. This concept, developed by Label Dalbin in collaboration with mobile agency Clicmobile, will revolutionize the collection and distribution of video art by placing it literally at the collector’s fingertips.
Singer Sebastien Tellier and artist Xavier Veilhan’s film Furtivo will be the second film available for sale through Collector Serie, and will also be screened at Hors Pistes this year (20 February 2010, 19:00).
KILL THE EGO will also be the first piece available for purchase through the Collector Serie application for iPhone. This concept, developed by Soundwalk co-founder and CEO Alex Kummerman, will revolutionize the collection and distribution of video art by placing it literally at the collector’s fingertips. Xavier Veilhan’s film Furtivo will be the second film available for sale through Collector Serie, and will also be screened at Hors Pistes this year.
[09/02/10 17:05:15] Isabella Neale Yeager: add: Soundwalk contributor Xavier Veilhan?