This is a past event
As part of the successful Three Cities Project, Professor Pete Stollery will present further new research at the Place seminar in Bergen.
Following his ground-breaking investigation into cityscapes sonic identity with one of his PhD students Ross Whyte, who worked on approaches to sound in three Northern cities to collect and document sound installations, maps and sound art.
Three Cities: Aberdeen-Bergen-St Petersburg
Project involved contribution, participation and experience from three centres over many months with different communities to learn about and engage with aural culture through sound recordings.
Cultural links then developed with academic institutions and other agencies from Bergen to St Petersburg including:
Common to all three cities is that they all are coastal. So it was natural to assume that people’s life in these cities must have always been influenced by the sea – like a large magnet, people must have always felt its omnipresence.
Part One
- Two Aberdeen-based composers (working with one from the actual city where the recordings were made) asked the direction to the sea in different areas of all three cities. So the answers were always different, and of course, were in the language of the inhabitant.
- Sound and images were captured from these discussions and subsequent travel from that position, towards the sea. Video footage and a set of binaural microphones captured sound collected by three composers/sound artists who started their journey from very different parts of the city to the sea, by asking for directions.
- An installation was created (including video and audio recordings)presented in sound festival 2012.
Part Two
- Involved in-country composers working with children, students, general public, etc to use sounds recorded in that country. Participants created music and sound art using computers and sound transformation software with recordings to reflect a sense of place, transmitted through the medium of sound.
Professor Pete Stollery and Ross Whyte presented a collection of sound installations, sound maps and sound art in the relaxing atmosphere of MUSA.
Event information: http://sound-scotland.co.uk/sound_events/three-cities-project-surround-sound/
Blog link: http://threecitiesproject.wordpress.com/
Link to an article in the Glasgow Herald: www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/sound-bites.17206251
- Speaker
- Professr Pete Stollery FRSA
- Hosted by
- University of Bergen
- Venue
- Grieg Academy, Institute of Music, University of Bergen
- Contact
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Contact: Professor Pete Stollery p.stollery@abdn.ac.uk, http://www.petestollery.com Skype: petestollery