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A PIER Utilising
primary sound recording and accompanied by photography, the artists
Thor McIntyre-Burnie and Chris Watson traced the changing atmosphere
of the pier's concert hall, including it's natural and urban environs,
the ocean beneath and the dynamic starling roost....The end result
of the project was an exhibition linking the migratory path of
the starlings from their winter refuge on the pier to their summer
migration north of Scandinavia.
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LISTENING
POST Chris Watson's sound recordings
consist of limited ecological systems that are investigated by
use of a microphone. The atmosphere, the specific spatiality of
the place, the time of day, the season and the position of the
listener - for Chris Watson all these parts are just as important
for his investigation as geographic, historical and scientific
facts.
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EMS PRIZE
Ulf Stenberg, the director of EMS
(Electron Musik Studio) in Stockholm, talks about the background
and intention behind the EMS prize, an international music award
with specific concern to "text-sound composition".
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THE GENDER
OF MUSIC "Have we ever really
asked ourselves why there are so many male composers and so few
female ones?" The music critic Guido Zeccola discusses here
on the gender of the "art music" of our time.
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MEREAMIS
Pär Johansson, the former
secretary of SEAMS (the Society for Electroacoustic Music) presents
their programme MEREAMIS, i.e. "More Electroacoustic Music
in Sweden", which opened national-wide tours with various
forms of electroacoustic music in Sweden.
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PHANTOM
BROADCAST After several recent
works with radio used as a side element, John Duncan focuses again
on shortwave as the full source material in his phantom broadcast,
with one slight twist.
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