The first Norwegian Symposium touching on the subject of Soundscape to be held at NOTAM in Oslo In April. Lineup looks very interesting. talks, workshops, concert and I will be playing a experimental DJ-set mixing music with some of my own soundscape recordings at the Symposium party, friday the 9th. More info to be posted.
I just discovered a unique poet and artist named Carolyn Mary Kleefeld. She describes what I haven´t manage to put words to really well and I thought it would fit to put it here as a quote, taken from an interview with her here:
http://www.mavericksofthemind.com/kle-int.htm
“DJB: How has being in Big Sur in particular influenced your work?
CAROLYN: It’s a unique place to be. It has accelerated my internal journey, and simultaneously my art, to be in a place where I can create the space and time to let all that’s possible happen. It’s an enigmatic and challenging environment. It’s been essential for me to be in the constant inspiration of nature, where I can be in a position to live my own natural rhythms, and define my own nature. Previously, I didn’t have the time to do so. Here, I’m able to create a world where I can live in my imagination as much of the time as possible.
This wilderness is a place that allows me to be in a receptive and vulnerable state of being. Because I’m not dealing with the daily traffic of a city, I’m not having to use the defense mechanisms that dull my sensibilities. My sensitivities and sensibilities can have the freedom to play, experiment, and just be. Big Sur is a mirror for a beautiful state of mind, hence the real importance of keeping it unpolluted can’t be stressed too much, since we have so few places left that can mirror the human soul. Of course, one’s internal environment always creates one’s perception of the external environment, wherever one is, and can eventually reshape the external.”
I underlined above, what to seems to me like a lovely way of explaining why looking after and caring for nature, being environmental friendly and learning about Acoustic Ecology, feels so important.
Carolyn Mary Kleefeld site: www.carolynmarykleefeld.com
“VI KAN MATA DUVOR OM DU VILL , JAG VILL BARA VA BREVID…”
Koreograf: Tine Erica Aspaas
I composed parts of the music. Read more about it here:
http://www.dansenshus.com/event.php?id=2635
Listen to it here:Vi Kan Mata Duvorna mp3
I have been invited to participate with a sound-installation at San Fransiscos biennal sonic arts festival:
“Soundscape Røst and Røst Puffin Colony” is invited to the fourth season of the Soundwave Festival entitled GREEN SOUND happening June through August 2010. The committee and I are excited for its addition to GREEN SOUND, exploring imaginations between sound and the environment.”
I will post a new page about the project this week. I am very excited for the Puffins and for myself and Jason Rosenberg, a New York based artist I´m collaborating with. Quick summery of installation:
Soundscape Røst and Røst Puffin Colony
A sound and multimedia-installation documenting and examining the state of the Atlantic Puffins breeding colony on the archipelago of Røst, Northern Norway, and an investigation into the Røst Soundscape and the contemporary and historical importance of the Puffin Colony for the inhabitants of Røst.
Recording Sound Of Puffin at Mykines, Summer 2008
An electronic-music pioner is coming to Oslo! No other than the American composer and musician Pauline Oilveros.
“Through Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening I finally know what harmony is…. It’s about the pleasure of making music.”
John Cage 1989
PAULINE OLIVEROS is a senior figure in contemporary American music. Her career spans fifty years of boundary dissolving music making.
In the ’50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists, poets gathered together in San Francisco. Today she is Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY and Darius Milhaud Artist-in-Residence at Mills College. Oliveros has been as interested in finding new sounds as in finding new uses for old ones –her primary instrument is the accordion, an unexpected visitor perhaps to musical cutting edge, but one which she approaches in much the same way that a Zen musician might approach the Japanese shakuhachi. Pauline Oliveros’ life as a composer, performer and humanitarian is about opening her own and others’ sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Since the 1960’s she has influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. Pauline Oliveros is the founder of “Deep Listening,” which comes from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition, improvisation and electro-acoustics. Pauline Oliveros describes Deep Listening as a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, of one’s own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening is my life practice,” she explains, simply. Oliveros is founder of Deep Listening Institute, formely Pauline Oliveros Foundation.
When I discovered the book Deep Listening at a gallery in New York 18 months ago, I knew about Pauline Oliveros music, but not about her Deep Listening experience. A set of meditative listening practises that opens the mind and soul to a altered listening experience.You can listen to, -and read more about Pauline Oliveiros work , philosophy and her Deep Listening Instititue here:
We went. Put our bathing suites on and had alot of fun. Listening underwater is a new and exciting experience.
Clearer sounds. Some muddier, but more physical. Very “close”. We missed out on many of the soundpieces due to the poster indicating opening time until 7pm. When we arrived at 6pm however, DJ Bendiks was playing. Hearing some favourite Norwegian disco underwater was fun, however only the minimal deep techno really worked. We where dancing under water. Here´s a pic of Anna-Rae Crawford from Canada enjoying underwater disco.
I was asked to do a dj mix for NRK P3´s Lydverket, a show on national radio here in Norway.
I think you might like the Child Of Klang intro to the otherwise “ordinary” DJ Sunshine mix.
Listen back here:
