Tag Archives: soundscape

audio cultures, parallel worlds

As I travel around doing projects and giving workshops I start to notice something when I explain what I do and how it relates to the culture of sound and listening. The inevitable question that always comes up is, how is this information useful? Working as a “sound artist” appears to many people (and actually [...]
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new maps of time, istanbul

New Maps of Time sound workshop/residency Istanbul Turkey ‘New Maps of Time’ is a project and workshop about mapping architectural and urban spaces using sound as a means to express actions within a space. read more… Workshop carried out in the frame of my X-OP residency at Apartment Project, artist-run project space, from February [...]
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eesti helimaastikud / soundscapes of estonia

project proposal for Eesti Rahva Muuseum * * * * * Presentation at Eesti Rahva Muuseum, November 26th 2009 Soundscapes of Estonia is a research project and proposal for the Estonian National Museum as a non-local real-time sound environment. The term soundscape can be defined as the totality of sounds one may hear at any given location. The [...]
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sound objects in the landscape

During a recent revenant sound workshop in Tampere, Finland we took some time out to introduce a few basic recording techniques used in the field (it is good to remind ourselves that “field recording” is more a technique than a genre). This was to show what kind of things we do in practice to the [...]
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in the soundscape

interviewed by Paulo Raposo PR: How did you start working with field-recordings? And how did you first start to integrate field-recordings in your music? JG: Last month I had some childhood memories come to me that I would say are related to this question. I used to play with tape recorders as far back as I even [...]
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