Project: Without Title
Category: Sound Art
Period: May 2009
Event: Art Residency
A platform in form of an installation and a performance, that constitutes an aleatorical process in acoustic communication across geographic, physical and emotional boarders. Acousmatic sounds, field recordings and electro acoustic works were sourced and generated through analog means from the surrounding area to participate in an improvisation and “hoerspiel” that are situated in the landscape of Nodar.
The idea was to create a framework which allowed for improvisation and new combinations of (visual) local residues, field recordings, electro acoustic compositions and experimental sound works. The artist was particularly interested in a compositional approach that is characterized by the participating sound’s location and heritage, bringing time and place as modulating elements into the framework and that is coloured by low-fi and analog methods.
The project aimed to bring together people, places, nature, textures, phonographers and listeners, to actively participate and experience a sonic and subjective journey that shall never be the same twice.
The artist created an artwork that not only holds reference to locations and time frames but also to private and emotional experiences. Her intent was to produce a stage much like a musical garden or landscape that allows for musical and sonic cross cultural dissemination.
An audio excerpt from Melanie Velarde’s final presentation in Nodar:
Melanie Velarde | Australia, Germany
Melanie Velarde is an Australian sound artist currently living in Berlin. She received a Master in New Media Art (Sound Studies) from RMIT, Melbourne Australia in 2001. She has been using mainly field recordings to produce audio/sensual textures that can be experienced within a defined space, usually in form of sound and video installations as well as performance. Her work has been presented in galleries and festivals throughout Australia, China, Denmark, Germany, etc. as well as in art radio broadcasts.
Project: Without Title
Category: Sound Art
Period: May 2009
Event: Art Residency
A platform in form of an installation and a performance, that constitutes an aleatorical process in acoustic communication across geographic, physical and emotional boarders. Acousmatic sounds, field recordings and electro acoustic works were sourced and generated through analog means from the surrounding area to participate in an improvisation and “hoerspiel” that are situated in the landscape of Nodar.
The idea was to create a framework which allowed for improvisation and new combinations of (visual) local residues, field recordings, electro acoustic compositions and experimental sound works. The artist was particularly interested in a compositional approach that is characterized by the participating sound’s location and heritage, bringing time and place as modulating elements into the framework and that is coloured by low-fi and analog methods.
The project aimed to bring together people, places, nature, textures, phonographers and listeners, to actively participate and experience a sonic and subjective journey that shall never be the same twice.
The artist created an artwork that not only holds reference to locations and time frames but also to private and emotional experiences. Her intent was to produce a stage much like a musical garden or landscape that allows for musical and sonic cross cultural dissemination.
An audio excerpt from Melanie Velarde’s final presentation in Nodar:
Melanie Velarde | Australia, Germany
Melanie Velarde is an Australian sound artist currently living in Berlin. She received a Master in New Media Art (Sound Studies) from RMIT, Melbourne Australia in 2001. She has been using mainly field recordings to produce audio/sensual textures that can be experienced within a defined space, usually in form of sound and video installations as well as performance. Her work has been presented in galleries and festivals throughout Australia, China, Denmark, Germany, etc. as well as in art radio broadcasts.
