AUDIO - site
In and Out – for Menai Singing Bridge (2012)
for singing bridge, toy piano, bass recorder and electronics
INTER/actions Symposium, Bangor 2012
by Jodi Rose, Andreas Weixler,
Se-Lien Chuang, Xenia Pestova
Jodi Rose, singing bridge,
concept
Andreas Weixler, spectra
sonic realtime process, musical concept
Se-Lien Chuang, bass
recorder, musical concept
Xenia Pestova toy piano and
music boxes, musical concept
Location: Bridgemaster´s House, Menai Suspension Bridge,
Bangor, UK
Date: 10th April, 2012
Time: 15:30 – 17:00
photo 1 Dewi Glyn Jones www.dewijones.co.uk
live recordings
from the performance - total time 59 minutes.
Menai14.mp3
at 16:46 o´clock -
duration 15 min 31 sec
Menai10.mp3 at
16:11 o´clock -
duration 11 min 04 sec
Menai8.mp3
at 15:23 o´clock - duration 12 min 41 sec
Menai4.mp3 at
15:35 o´clock -
duration 11 min 17 sec
Menai3.mp3
at 15:23 o´clock - duration
10 min 22 sec
photo 2 & 3 Dewi Glyn Jones www.dewijones.co.uk
photo 4 & 5
Haruka Hirayama, photo 6
Xenia Pestova
This recording is taken from a
live concert on the Menai Suspension Bridge, with bass recorder, toy
piano, music boxes and the Spectra Sonic System.
Amplifying the cables and structure of the Menai Suspension Bridge,
sound artist Jodi Rose invited Se-Lien Chuang, Xenia Pestova and
Andreas Weixler to improvise with and reinterpret the sound and
space of the bridge at the Bridgemaster's house, a small space
located directly on the bridge itself.
Audience members and passers-by contributed by "playing" the
amplified cables of the bridge, the sounds of which were fed into
the system alongside sounds made by the environment and passing
cars. The sounds of the bridge were processed in real time with
multi-channel audio (multilayer granular synthesis, Spectral Delay,
FFT Filtering) by Andreas Weixler using his Spectra Sonic System,
with instrumental improvisation by Se-Lien Chuang on bass recorder
and Xenia Pestova on toy piano and music boxes.
The Meinai Suspension Bridge, which sound we have processed in
realtime, is a very special historic construction:
„The Menai Suspension Bridge (Welsh: Pont Grog y Borth) is a
suspension bridge between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of
Wales. Designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826, it was the
first modern suspension bridge in the world.“ (Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menai_Suspension_Bridge)
Musical Composition/Improvisation:
"In and Out” – for Menai Singing Bridge
A live concert on the Menai Suspension Bridge, with bass recorder,
toy piano and spectra sonic system.
Amplifying the cables and structure of the Menai Suspension Bridge,
Jodi Rose invites local and visiting musicians to improvise with and
reinterpret the sound and space of the bridge in this unique
setting.
SITE: Jodi Rose invited musicians at INTER/actions: Symposium to
improvise with live sounds from the Menai Suspension bridge in a
concert at the bridge master's house, a small space on the bridge.
AUDIO: The sounds of the bridge will be processed in real time with
multichannel audio (multilayer granular synthesis, Spectral Delay,
FFT Filtering) by Andreas Weixler using his Spectra Sonic System,
with instrumental improvisation by Se-Lien Chuang on bass recorder
and Xenia Pestova on XP toy piano and music boxes.
Sound Engineer: John Bowden, Depth Productions
Tech Support: Jacqui Banks, Dominic Chennell
Production: Datrys/Bangor Sound City + Jodi Rose
http://www.bangorsoundcity.org/Menai+Singing+Bridge
SINGING BRIDGES:
Every bridge is connected to all other bridges through the
vibrations in their structure, like gigantic telegraph wires
circling the globe. Singing Bridges is a state of mind that you
enter every time you cross a bridge. Transcending the outlines of
geography, crossing the bridge transports you into another dimension
of reality. Sounds from the bridge are woven into a "dark,
industrial, chaotic, strange and beautiful" composition, a
psycho-geographic performance exploring mythology and poetics of
bridges.
http://welcometobridgeland.com/
INTER/actions 2012 projects by Weixler-CHuang: http://avant.mur.at/concerts/2012/Bangor/
