Istanbul A transitory sound journey by Roger Mills with Visuals by Neil Jenkins
http://www.eartrumpet.org/istanbul ---- Istanbul is a soundtrack composed of trumpet improvisations and manipulated field recordings taken from a recent visit to the city which was originally performed live online and web cast at the Placard Headphone Festival in Regensburg, Germany in August 2007. It is an audio journey through the city focusing on the diverse sound environments I encountered whilst visiting it's different areas. Most of the recordings were taken as I moved around the city on various forms of transport including walking. They include street musicians, trams, traffic, street ambience, the ritual call to prayers, a scratchy old 45rpm single bought in one of the bazaars, all of which characterise the variety of everyday sounds to be experienced in Istanbul. Developing the theme that locational sound environments can inspire and trigger creative musical responses I layered and sequenced these field recordings in order of their inherent tonal & rhythmic qualities. I then used the resulting sound collages to improvise trumpet melodies and textures from a mixture of looping tones and effects. I view this process as a streaming of musical consciousness guided by the sound collages and my memory and emotional experiences of the city. In it's original performance Istanbul was accompanied by an live online visual mix by Neil Jenkins who had also visited the city with me. This was produced through the online A/V platform VisitorsStudio.org and projected into the gallery space in Regensburg. The complete audio visual mix can be viewed at http://www.eartrumpet.org/istanbul ---- Related URLs www.eartrumpet.org www.furthernoise.org www.visitorsstudio.org www.devoid.org http://placart.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
