January 2009
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A Catastrophic Silence: Field Recordings Vol. 2
AAIR.fm has released the CD soundtrack to the Catastrophic Silence Summer School at the AA. It will be going on sale here in Montreal at the Canadian Centre for Architecture very soon. They are for sale in the AA bookshop immediately and will be available for order from the AAIR website.
August 2008
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Unit 5
Mariam Abonomai Naz Atalay Vincente Boguszewski Joanna Brenden Jennifer Robin Caras Jihoon Hyun Sarah Khalaf Eleni Kousouri Theodore Koustos Quinntin Kwok Gilberto Pedrosa Thellius Zamprogno Gabriel Villalobos
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Julian Biggs, 1964, 8 min 12 sec
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July 2008
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“Right now, the average daytime decibel level in Cairo is 85 dbA, the equivalent...”
– New York Times
WatchSoundscapes of Disintegration
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…Or of the fragmentary, Of that which remains, Of what is no longer.
Mariam Abonomai | Vincente Boguszewski | Jennifer Caras | Quinntin Kwok
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Soundscapes of Disintegration: Or of the fragmentary, Of that which remains of what is no longer.
Solitude is the state of initial confrontation with this manifold that...
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A future London grows quiet as social connections break down...
Eleni Kousouri | Thellius Zamprogno | Theo Koustos | Jihoon Hyun | Joanna Brenden
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Watch4 Seconds
Imagine a future London super-saturated by sound.
Naz Atalay | Gabriel Villalobos | Sarah Khalaf | Gilberto Pedrosa
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AA RADIO: PETER CUSACK →
Lecture by Peter Cusack, Senior Lecturer Sound Arts & Design at the London College of Communication. Peter talks through his own projects exploring the sounds characteristic to different cities and the role these sounds play in the lives of the city inhabitants.
Peter Cusack: Soundscape Resources
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For ordering “Your favourite London Sounds” plus LMC info, monthly concert calandar, LMC archives and much more.
London’s official noise strategy and...
May 2008
7 posts
Architectural Association Summer School Unit
This AA Unit considers simultaneously - the city as sound and catastrophe as a silencing. It questions: What will the city sound like? Is communication possible? As the noise floor drops, will a new soundscape emerge? The Unit employs the soundtrack as the index for the urban sonic condition - before, during and after catastrophe. It takes the soundtracks of uncoventional and experimental...
“Both architecture and cinema articulate lived space. These two art forms create...”
– Juhani Pallasmaa Lived Space in Architecture and Cinema
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Catastrophic Listening
Alvin Lucier ‘I am sitting in a room’ 1969 & ‘Music on a Long Thin Wire’ 1980 Chris Watson & BJ Nilsen ‘Storm’ 2006. Franscisco Lopez ‘New York Buildings’ 2001. Glenn Gould ‘The Solitude Trilogy’ 1967-77. Christina Kubisch ‘Five Electrical Walks’ 2007. Wolf Eyes ‘Dead Hills’ 2002 Steve McGreevy ‘Auroral Chorus II: The Music of the Magnetosphere’ 2000. Toshiya Tsunoda...
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Steve Bates | Joshua Bonnetta | Douglas Moffat
Steve Bates Steve Bates is a media artist, musician, and audio technician whose current work revolves around improvised and composed music, radio, and installation projects. He founded and directed the Send +Recieve Festival of Sound in 1998, now in its eight year. Bates is the Sound Coordinator at the Hexagram Institute for Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies and is a...