Sunday, December 18, 2pm
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow St.
New York, NY
Admission: Free
Passageira em Casa is a multimedia performance inspired by concepts of home and migration. The narrative is a partially fictionalized and personalized account of the maritime history of Portugal, enacted by a dancer, a vocal performer, live video performer, live electronic composer, and other artists. The project is inspired by various texts related to maritime journeys and Portuguese history and culture.
In her presentation at EMF, Colbert will discuss her use of site-specific field recordings of tectonic plates, earthquakes, and tidal movements in the piece. She will also address how flora, fauna, constelations and maritime navigation techniques have influenced the work.

[Nodar003] Three Years In Nodar Context-Specific Art Practices in Rural Portugal 315 pages full color catalogue Accompanying double CD with 20 sound compositions made in Nodar Price: 25 Euros + postage For orders, please contact info@binauralmedia.org The catalog includes essays, critical texts, field diaries, photographs and drawings of more than 40 artists who developed art [...]

“Passageira em Casa/Passenger at Home“, a project by Maile Colbert will have an artist residency between 22 and 27 Aug. at Estúdio PerFormas in Aveiro, where the audience will have the opportunity to witness the creative process of an intermedia work in which several disciplines and media interact with each other to form a coherent [...]

Open Call

Workshop/Residency
“Passenger at Home”: Task-based Choreography

Directed by Maile Colbert and Wanda Gala
With dramaturgic support by Rui Catalão
Production: Binaural/Nodar

Centro de Experimentação Artística
Fábrica da Pólvora (Barcarena, Oeiras, Portugal)
27 June – 2 July 2011
Total duration: 42 hours (7 hours/day)

Deadline for reception of applications: 15 June 2011

Paivascapes #1 – Paiva River Sound Festival will be the subject of Patrick McGinley’s Framework radio show to be first broadcasted on the London-based Resonance 104.4 FM station, on April 10th at 10:00pm local time and following on several European and US radio stations.

The radio piece to be broadcasted was composed by Rui Costa and is entitled “Around the River Bend”. It features a variety of locations, times of day, seasons, and contexts including recordings of the Paivascapes #1 festival performances, source material collected by the artists for their sound and audiovisual installations, sound clips included in Binaural/Nodar’s Paiva River Sound Mapping project, spontaneous recordings of social gatherings during the festival, and improvisations made by children inspired by the river soundscapes or by the names of the places where the festival happened, etc..

PAIVASCAPES #1 – PAIVA RIVER SOUND FESTIVAL
Vila Nova de Paiva, Castro Daire, São Pedro do Sul, Arouca, Castelo de Paiva (PT)
March 4th – 8th, 2011

Retrospective exhibition, multimedia concerts, site-specific sound installations, conferences, video works screenings, sound perception activities and environmental walks.

“An innovative and itinerant festival where the sound and multimedia arts will interact with riverside landscapes and communities along the Paiva River, from its source to its mouth.

“Paivascapes #1 will include exhibitions and sound and multimedia concerts related to the Paiva River, by over twenty renowned artists from Europe, America and Asia.”

‘Scraping the Surface’: A Binaural/Nodar Collective Exhibition
Asymmetrick Arts Gallery, Rockland, Maine (US)
September 29th – October 3rd, 2010
This exhibition comprises works made by members of the Binaural/Nodar artist collective and others created at the Artist Residency Center of Nodar. The works reflect upon specific aspects of a geographical and social context (the city, in the case of ‘Sightseeing for the Blind’ and the rural village in the case of the remaining works) and use strategies that begin with various methods of documentation and then extend through artistic process to introduce a distance from the original fragments of reality and to access deeper layers from it. This exhibition will be integrated in Panoptic: An Exploration, a section of the Camden International Film Festival dedicated to new media installation and experimental documentary shorts.

“Over the Eyes“, a video installation created in 2007 at Nodar Artist Residency Center by the US media artist Maile Colbert, was part of a collective exhibition shown in Oporto between October, 13th and 17th 2009 at Future Places, a digital media festival co-organized by the University of Texas  – Austin along with the Fine [...]

RUI COSTA

Sightseeing For The Blind

CD, (56:20 min), 300 copies, cardboard cover

© 2009 / 1000füssler 012, Release Date: August 2009

Tracklist:

Rui Costa: Sightseeing For The Blind, 26‘22

further Sightings

Gregory Büttner: Side Play for Blinds, 5‘43

Pali Meursault: Hidden Insights, 5‘08

Bill Jarboe: Sightseeing joint sdif 2’, 3‘58

Maile Colbert: Site Sighing for the Time, 5‘01

Marc Behrens: Site for a Numb, 9‘54

“The idea for the piece first came to me in 2005, when I was invited to develop a sound project with the city of Lisbon as its theme. I decided to wander through the city, making a series of sound recordings using a pair of binaural microphones. What I concluded from these recordings was that, more than capturing the sound of the place or its “atmosphere”, they reflected a lot about me: my decisions of where to go, what places to avoid, how fast to walk, how long to linger in one place… preconceived ideas of what I wanted to be captured on tape.

Later I followed up on this idea by introducing an element of “sonic sightseeing”. I grabbed a tourist guide of Lisbon, walked along the recommended hiking routes and made recordings with binaural and shotgun microphones. I wrote down my impressions, states of mind, mental associations and decisions and then mapped the recorded sounds against these notes, considering them as “instructions” or “cues” for a sound composition.

I suppose that the experience that tourists get from a city is in great measure determined by the randomness of these almost unconscious impressions, of a permanent mapping out of what they see against their desires, preconceived ideas, memories, etc. All in all, my intention was to convert this process into a method for sound composition using field recordings.”

(Rui Costa, 2009)

Sound recordings made by Rui Costa between 2005 and 2008 in Lisbon, Portugal. Composed and mixed by Rui Costa in 2008.

Rui Costa is a founder a presently co-artistic director of Binaural.

Between March, 19th and 21st 2009, Viriato Theatre (Viseu, PT) hosted a Binaural workshop on video art. During this workshop directed by Maile Colbert circa 20 people learned concepts, techniques and tools for producing video art movies using archive movies and created 12 very interesting video pieces. This workshop is part of Binaural’s education program on experimental sound and video.

Here are some photos from this workshop: