Location Sound Films
   
 

sound+video works DVD

 
     
 

During the spring and summer of 2006 a number of visiting artists came to take part in a residency or event at MoKS, an artist-run center in the rural south-eastern part of Estonia. My intention was to record the sounds as well as images of the events, collaborations and investigation which took place. For this, it is important to mention Hitoshi Kojo, Patrick McGinley, Fantomas, and the participants of PostsovkhoZ 6, for their participation and creative inspiration.

The Location Sound Film project has to do with a territory that falls somewhere between "performance", "field recording" and "documentation". It takes the usual idea of recording sound while adding the component of video. The following sounds and images were recorded simultaneously on a HD video camera. Little or no post-processing was involed other than the adjustment of equalization and sound levels. Various techniques were used to make recordings, some more clearly visible than others, depending on the type of sound captured. The main difference here being the use of a pair of stereo condenser microphones or piezo contact microphones.

Location filming has to do with observation and reflection on events in a recored space and time, looking at what induces and affects spontaneous interventions using sound and image as the evidence.

  
     
 
List of works and times

03:15 Baltic Ferry - contact microphones
04:20 Ant Hill Activity - contact microphones
02:38 Tree in Coastal Wind - contact microphones
04:02 Jars and Fire - stereo microphones
08:44 Metal Door Tones - contact microphones - with: Patrick McGinley, Hitoshi Kojo, Fantomas
12:09 Bowed Piano Wires - stereo microphones - with Hitoshi Kojo
04:33 Bowed Metal Objects - stereo microphones - with Hitoshi Kojo
07:37 Bowed Metal Structures - stereo microphones - with: Patrick McGinley, Fantomas
18:21 Objects on the Ground - stereo microphones - with: Patrick McGinley, Hitoshi Kojo, Fantomas
05:24 Rusted Wheels - stereo microphones - with: Patrick McGinley, Hitoshi Kojo, Fantomas
06:12 (Un)Stable Structure - stereo microphones
12:28 Phone Tower Cables + 250%
05:22 Phone Tower Cables 02
05:40 Phone Tower Cables 03
06:10 Sound Cellar: Directed - stereo microphones - with the participants of PS6
08:15 Sound Cellar: Non-Directed - stereo microphones - with the participants of PS6