Workshop Log – Day 3
kseniia shcherbakova. day 2.Im currantly in Lviv. I moved here at 8-th of March 2022 by train from Odessa.
i dont feeel, here as in home.
when I was walking into the narrow and loud streets of lviv i thought - its not my place. Its so weird and
unfamiliar to places I used to work and be. for me its so important to feel the surrounding and play with it sides to make my artistic work. Here I still feel as a srtanger.
i don't actually understand if its because of being in this uncomfortable state of displacement, or it's
because of this cold walls of buildings and masses of people on its strets.
when i walked with my recorder i became tired.
it was something like you feel in a dream, when you try to do something, but you can't raise your hands.
when you try to open the door but the door handle is disappear.
but i want to wake up.
i understad, that i need to go through it, but I need a force. I need my closest people to be here with me, but they are in a distance. For theese monthes i became a home for myself, but i dont exist without my family and friends. My home was tooken from me.
------ Reflections on first listening session --------
A mix of people streaming from their rooms and short performances
This was exactly what we hoped for
Xseniia was streaming from Lviv (#1 on the map)
May be traveling on Sat/Sun - could stream this using locus cast app
Kseniia (#3 on the map) was streaming cassette piano loops and electronic devices as a way to test out the microphones and creating a soundscape
Viktor (#2 on the map) was streaming from his balcony - also sounds of his parquet flooring
Grant - sometimes low frequencies are made louder if the box is placed on the floor or a hard surface
Viktor - handling noise?
Grant - minimal if the box is held firmly and packed out inside the box with paper
Kseniia - Rain protection?
Grant - the boxes are very waterproof - will hold up in most weather
Mort - about the Locus Sonus map - this is usually used for environmental recordings - we may want to think
about how we present performance based work in relation to this
Sometimes we were hearing a cached loop of audio - this can be fixed by refreshing the page - though you
will lose the chat log
Listening through VLC is an alternative to avoid this
Kseniia - some recordings through VLC did not save?
Grant - record toggle menu is not always reliable - better to use a keyboard shortcut
.MP3 or .OGG?
Mort - MP3 is more accessible to more people. Ogg is better quality / open source / bigger files but less
widely used.
Grant - Difference between 320 mp3 and ogg is hard to hear for most people
---- Sound map -----
Grant:
Locus Sonus Sound map - https://locusonus.org/soundmap/051/
Grant's stream from his garden in London
Listens whilst writing
Can hear changes in wildlife over the seasons
Wilding of the backyard because of the lack time for the gardening
Soundmap - https://locusonus.org/soundmap/051/ - can be useful to toggle on the list of streams using the
list button on toolbar
Project by Jesse Brennan:
A live audio stream transmitted from a container roof at Stave Hill
Ecological Park in Rotherhithe is played out from time to time on an
array of speakers by the Reception at London Bridge Station.
http://soundtent.org/2019/projects/sounds_interrupted.html
Moving the sound from one place to another to create instability
Stream from Greensboro, North Carolina by Dustin Perdue - http://stream.borris.me:8888/outside
Blind sound artists as a way
Creating contacts
From a cluster of mics in Japan by Cyberforest:
yamanashi - yamanakako
http://mp3s.nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Fuji_CyberForest.mp3
Used by ornithologists to identify bird activity in relation to climate and habitat changes
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Lia Mazzari - hut in mountains of Northern Italy: https://locus.creacast.com:9443/compaccio_malga_sanon_hut.
mp3
https://liamazzari.com/MAY-THE-WOLF-LIVE-CHE-L-LEUF-VIVE
Imagining the future time when wolves are back
Aural observatory
Way of waiting
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MORT`s session
exist in a place in a head
3-5 sec away
NOT real places
Mixing is a way to bring two places of the earth together
Less real and more real place (by mixing a few expierences)
Fictional
Mezcal platform: - https://sc.listen.center/
--- Sharing Session 3 ---
Timings for Friday 16th Sept
Ivan: Mixing and digging - 8 hours - Friday - 10am - 6pm
Viktor: day time eg 2pm or 4pm
Kseniia: will decide for tomorrow
Kseniia S: Odessa train runs only at night (eg 8 - 11pm)
Victor:
walk around the city - touristic tour - certain route
Odesa without tourists
friends are not coming (you're not showing around)
missing the summer expierence in the city
Ukrainian line in the city (describing locations)
2 idea
tram from the north to south of the city
to take a tram
flee market
10-18 - Ivan
14 or 16 Vilktor