Sound Walk @ Musica Viva 2008

Dates: from 20 to 27 Setember 08 (throughout the day)
Typology: Electroacoustic walk (pedestrian walk)
Location: Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon, Portugal)
Free admission

A sound piece composed by the Binaural artists Maile Colbert and Rui Costa, entitled “Day of Anger – Act 3″, was chosen to be part of an electroacoustic walk organized within the context of Musica Viva 08, a festival organized by Miso Music Portugal.

Following a worldwide invitation to electroacoustic composers, Sound Walk is a collective and unique sound installation that follows the visitors inside Centro Cultural de Belém: 142 pieces from 28 countries, from which 36 were chosen to be part of Sound Walk 2008.

To listen to the sound piece:

Maile Colbert & Rui Costa: Day of Anger Act 3 Play Now

The residency of Dennis Báthory-Kitsz (electro and/or acoustic composer) and Stevie Balch (midwife) was based on the subject of birth songs and maternity issues.

During their stay in Nodar, they recorded more than fifty local traditional songs, several hours of soundscapes and interviews with local women, along with hundreds of photographs taken.

The work conceived for the final presentation was an electro-acoustic sound & photographic poem of about 30 minutes, which very successfully incorporated the diverse elements collected and worked throughout the residency.

It seemed interesting and relevant that people like Dennis and Stevie who have a strong personality and experience in their respective areas of intervention produced such a poignant and simple work, understandable for everyone that was at the final presentation of the project.

Sound Pieces:

“Pão” (“Bread”)

A composition for string quartet inspired by a traditional song recorded in Februrary 2007 in the neighbour village of Candal by Gonçalo Oliveira (MIDI sound)

“Creaking Door”
An improvisation with a an old creeking door swayed by Luis Costa

“Three Songs for Manuela”
Three electroacoustic pieces using sound recordings made in Nodar along with Manuela Barile’s funny voice.

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz - Bread Play Now

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz - Creaking Door Play Now

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz - Three Songs Play Now

NOGS Artistic Residency Program for 2007

Public presentation of two projects developed in the NOGS artistic residency:

28 April 2007 | 5.00 p.m.
Nodar, S. Pedro de Sul (Portugal)

Program:

5.00 p.m.
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz and Stevie Balch (USA)
Project: “Birth Song: Cross-Cultural Exploration of an Old Birth Art”
Electroacoustic Composition

6.00 p.m.
Aaron Ximm (USA)
Project: “Nodar Field Recordings”
Phonography, Sound Art

Dennis Báthory-Kitsz and Stevie Balch, artists in residence at Nodar Guest Studio, hold a conference at Collegium Musicum in Seia, Portugal.

14 April 2007 – 19h00
Casa das Artes
Collegium Musicum – Conservatório de Música de Seia
Seia, Portugal

Program:

1st part – Artistic background of the composer Dennis Báthory-Kitsz. Emblematic works and esthetic approaches. Excerpts of some pieces.

2nd part – Description of the “We are all Mozart” project, in which the composer challenged himself to be commissioned for one piece of music on each and every day of 2007.

3nd part – Description of the “Birth Song” project, that the composer alongside with hiswife, the midwife Stevie Balch, came to develop at Nodar.