Multidisciplinary Acoustic Performance_"Sound Landscapes"
What is a soundscape?
Natural and environmental sounds, or music that records and combines 'noise' in other words. It seems to be closer to the sound gaining Spatial Impression by recording and rearranging it from various environmental factors than ways to compose music.
Soundscape stimulates the imagination of the audience by rearranging sounds into the space. That is, it will get them to enter the room where that sounds are and to stir the imagination.
Sound Landscapes (short version) from Konstantin Dudakov-Kashuro on Vimeo.
<Artist Note>
"Sound Landscapes" is a multidisciplinary acoustic performance, created by Peter Aidu, and perceived both as a sound-drama and as an acoustic and visual installation. Its main instruments are mechanical noise machines, represented right on the stage, most of which have been reconstructed according to the drawings and schemes from 19 and early 20th century, originally being used for stage and early film sound design. Historically being hidden from the public behind the scenes as a functional machinery, "Sound Landscapes" treats noise machines as pure musical instruments and visually appealing sound-art objects.
The sound piece has a score, strictly according to which performers operate the machines and move on stage. With the help of approximately one hundred sound devices (the quantity may vary depending on the venue and stage properties) performers recreate soundscapes of wild forest, thunderstorm, ocean, city, factory, construction site, war and battle etc. Thereafter the piece consists of four acts - "Landscape #1", "Industrialisation", "Landscape #2", "Dies Irae" - that form together sort of four-part soundscape symphony, where imitative sounds become metaphors for nature and human co-existence, comprehensible both by enthusiasts and non-specialists, traditionally oriented audience and contemporary art lovers, adults and kids. The overall duration of the performance is approximately one hour.
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