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Show 0666: One Thought Fills Immensity by Sarah Washington (ORF Kunstradio)
Social Dreaming Climate Change: A psychosocial research pilot study into the contemporary cultural unconscious of climate change
A task, an engagement, a celebration, a seriousness, a desire, a call to arms. In October 2017 a gathering of specialists in climate change – including artists, researchers, activists, members of the Climate Psychology Alliance, and scientists – were brought together in rural Dorset by Cape Farewell, to be led by experts in a research method called the Social Dreaming Matrix. After contemplation of a series of powerful climate-based artworks, the 16 participants undertook a shared exploration of their dreams, associations and feelings with the aim of illuminating the cultural unconscious of climate change.
In One Thought Fills Immensity, Sarah Washington navigates the results in the hope of furthering the project’s goal to articulate the subliminal themes most meaningful for culture in the era of climate change. It is a Mobile Radio production for ORF Kunstradio and the Radia network, produced on behalf of Cape Farewell.
Eight different versions of the work were produced for specific radio stations, each featuring a remix of one section (and reordering of the segments) in a sequence of broadcasts across the world – until the final version which is also archived here, where the gradual remix is finally complete (and the segments revert back to the original order).
Photo: bobcat rock (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Show 0665: Screaming Tower by Carlos Santos & Nuno Torres for stress.fm (Guest Slot)
Screaming Tower is a sound project by
Carlos Santos: electronics, field recordings
Nuno Torres: alto saxophone.
Screaming Tower is a site-specific audio performance based on the flux of water delivery public system, and uses electronics, alto saxophone and field recordings diffused by a set of mobile loudspeakers.
The performance took place in the last level of a resonant water tower, about 40 meters high, located in Barreiro city, Portugal, in June 2017, as part of a performance event commemorating 80 years of public water delivery.
The architectural space is the “motor” for the development of the piece. Each of the generating sound elements: electronics, field recordings, saxophone, contribute as all for the displacement of sound in the resonant circular dome of the water tower. The usage of low and high pitch sound material, small percussive elements found in field recordings or played by the saxophone, were distributed by realtime mixing process of carefully placed speakers,
so that space could vibrate revealing its hidden “music”, as the last character in this broader sound spectrum process.
Music for vertical structures.
Mixed and mastered by Carlos Santos
Photos by Vera Marmelo
