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Saturday 17th January 2015 from 7.15pm to 8.15pm. [live broadcast]
DIVAcontemporary radio LIVE :: ivon oates and Marc Yeats in conversation
Conversation themes/agenda:
ivon – I wish to open a space between definitions of ‘music’/soundwork, art-object (found object, ‘rubbish’+ intent)
Marc – experimental ‘sound’ making is inspiring as a composer: exploring the degree of investigation, intent, organizing material and finding ways to make the object ‘speak’.
The discussion will consider:
Relationship between music/’noise’/sound.
Field recording (as ‘composed’), treated sounds, composition.
‘musical instruments’, sounding sculpture.
Thresholds of transformation: composition as the nodal confluence between axes from instrument, extended technique enlarging palette to ‘music’; and found sounds, sounding materials to artwork (sculpture, installation).
Audio from the sound walks and the material sounds experiment played in the studio before and after the talk.
streaming towards the sea by David Rogers
Field recordings using hydrophone and shotgun mics.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Khalil Gibran :: Lebanese-American, artist, poet and writer [1883-1931]
red&black by ivon oates
This composition is a playful, lyrical duet based on close recordings of whistling kettles. Slowly the individual voices emerge from the boiling and simmering environment of expanding metal and electrical switches. They soar into ‘songs’ which, to me, suggest African indigenous atonal music from my childhood.
under an upturned boat by ivon oates
This composition is based on recordings made under an upturned boat drawn up along the stream at Eype beach, near Bridport.
The space echoes with distant reverberating waves, and the relayed sounds of voices and footsteps on shingle contrast with intimate water trickles and the nearness of the 'soundchamber'. Generations of small sea vessels have been drawn up here by men and, living in the roaring interior, are intimations of their voices.