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Show 0912: And you've asked me to think about medicine by Sarah Scaife (Soundart Radio)
a collective sonic collage by Sarah Scaife
In a sympathetic garden, we made a gentle journey to explore wellbeing and medicine with some honesty. The work is created from original sounds, collected and recorded live in the gardens of Dartington Hall, Devon, UK, by contributors who joined Sarah's workshop at Sentient Performativities: thinking alongside the human, 2022.
a wonderful collage of voices — including some amazingly vulnerably and moving moments (particpant)
In the spaces between us and the more-than-human, we found sensations, imaginings and understandings. These conversations are ultimately lyrical and optimistic, but other voices and feelings are heard.
Sarah warmly thanks the participants who generously shared their recordings and trusted her to create this collage. The participants are Eleanor Snare, Gemma Collard-Stokes, Jane Mason, Katrina Brown, Rita Leduc, Sabine Kussmaul, Sam Francis, Scott Thurston.
Sarah Scaife is an artist and doctoral research student in the University of Exeter Department of Communications, Drama and Film. She uses practice-based performance research methods to explore "medicines of uncertainty". The research is supervised at the University of Exeter and the University of Bristol and supported by the South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership, UK.
Credits
Image credit: Sarah Scaife using photograph by Katrina Brown 2022
Music: digitally devised by Sarah Scaife remixing 'Elementary' by Scott Buckley
Created in partnership with Soundart Radio 102.5FM.
Background and context
https://art-earth.org.uk/symposium-sentient-performativities/
More about Sarah's work on these platforms
https://cargocollective.com/ragged-robin
Show 0617: Code Name: Villa B by Christophe Havard; Fabrice Arnaud-Crémon (JET FM)
Code Name : Villa B by Christophe Havard & Fabrice Arnaud-Crémon for Jet FM (Nantes, FR)
A composition for clarinets and electroacoustic devices, recorded with the binaural technology during the Sonor festival in Nantes, on October the 15th 2016.
The encounter of a space and an obsession!
The space is a bunker from Saint-Marc sur Mer, inside which Christophe Havard has started to record the sound alone or with the clarinet player Fabrice Arnaud-Crémon. He collected in these huge rooms the sound materials for his composition : some thick harmonics generated from iron structures, the clarinet with some strange reverb effects, some subtle motions of footsteps, voices and breath,…
When I record sounds in such a place, I consider its empty spaces as fictional characters! First, I gaze at them till I can feel them in my whole body. Gradually, the floors and the walls become like an organic structure that I slowly catch with my ears… I am convinced that, without the sound waves, the architecture would not exist: how could we feel the distances, the motions, the textures and maybe even the air density? Then, here comes my obsession, always the same: the desire to go through a sound which caresses my body. I feel so good when the sound affects me with delicacy or sometimes with a strong strength. I want so much to share this sensation with the audience. In this composition, the empty spaces also exist because one day, inside it, the clarinet player walked, breathed, played all kind of strange games and he ended up losing himself. And now, on stage, the games carry on and become unlikely realities and sound distorting mirrors.” Christophe Havard
In order to have a good experience of listening, with a surround space, some relief and more sensibility, the audience is set up on the same stage (or the same place) than the 2 musicians. The clarinet player often moves from one point of the stage to another. Thus he can play with the acoustic features of his instrument in interaction with the room. The electroacoustic player creates a relationship with the music of the clarinet, which he sends on different speakers, and the phonography mixed in live.
Some lights controlled by the Max / MSP program are placed on the floor. According to the movements of the composition, these lights provide a deeper sensation for listening to the music.
Christophe Havard
Composer (of electroacoustic and instrumental music), performer, improviser and sound artist, he began his career as a jazz saxophonist and progressively moved towards improvisation and sound experimentation. For fifteen years or so, he has been creating sound installations and electroacoustic and radiophonic pieces. He has been the guest at sound field residencies.
On stage or in his sound installations and compositions, we can find in Christophe Havard’s creations an interest for sound surroundings, the quality of timbre, the notion of memory and the opening up of stylistic forms.
Fabrice Arnaud-Crémon has been playing the clarinet since the age of eight. He studied notably with Michel Arrignon and Alain Damiens in Paris.
He is interested in all the possibilities of his instrument going through a large range of original repertory (Mozart, Weber, Brahms, Debussy, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Boulez, etc.) and transcriptions (Julien Opic, Sylvain Blassel, Gérard Chenuet). He often takes part to contemporary music (Philippe
Boivin, Nicolas Frize, Julien Opic, Sylvain Kassap, Christophe Havard, Arturo Gervasoni, Benoît Granier, Jérôme Joy, Christian Wolff, Keith Rowe, François Rossé…).
His artistic curiosity brings him into unusual contexts where he is used to playing chamber music or as a solist.
