{"id":12970,"date":"2012-03-25T02:09:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T02:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/arquivo\/12970"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:09:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T14:09:10","slug":"sound-and-rural-architecture-festival-9-29-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.binauralmedia.org\/news\/en\/arquivo\/12970","title":{"rendered":"Sound and Rural Architecture Festival: 9 – 29 April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

SOUND AND RURAL ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL
\n9 a 29 April 2012
\nGralheira Mountain Range, S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul (PT)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Artistic creation residencies >\u00a0 Experimental architecture residencies > media and sound installations in architectural structures >\u00a0 Field meetings with artists, architects and anthropologists > Community driven activities > Educational activities > Conferences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Participants:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Artists in residence:<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Wyness (UK)
\nAntonio Della Marina (IT)
\nAlessandra Zucchi (IT)
\nLu\u00eds Costa (PT)
\nLisa Premke (DE)
\nPerri Lynch (U.S.)
\nJohanna H\u00e4llsten (SE\/UK)
\nManuela Barile (IT\/EN)
\nUVBA Collective (PT)<\/p>\n

Architects in residence:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maria Carlos Valverde (PT)
\nAna Costa (PT)
\nZoraima de Figueiredo (PT)
\nPedro Silva (PT)
\nSilvia Jorge (PT)<\/p>\n

Anthropologist in residence:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ana Saraiva (PT)<\/p>\n

Credits:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Production: Binaural \/ Nodar
\nFunded by the Government of Portugal | Secretary of State for Culture | Director General of the Arts<\/p>\n

General Coordination: Lu\u00eds Costa
\nArtistic Director: Manuela Barile
\nArchitecture Coordinator:\u00a0 Maria Carlos Valverde
\nProduction Support: Carina Martins<\/p>\n

Sound and space form an important pair in our everyday environment: no sound exists outside of space and no space is really silent. Sound and space mutually reinforce one another in our perception, the qualities of a space affect how we perceive the sound and a sound affects how we perceive space. In short, space and sound are inseparable in our experience of what is to exist in the world.<\/p>\n

Similarly, there is clear evidence of the importance of sound in ancient sacred sites, which have been documented by anthropologists. The sounds were probably an important part of rituals, by the way they affected the human body and brain function. Many of the ancient holy sites were built in stone, which, by means of their geological qualities or disposition in space, generated particular acoustic effects of reverberation or echo. These types of phenomena are studied in the field of acoustic archeology.<\/p>\n

It is fair to say that the specific case of rural areas highlights the profound connection between landscape, architecture and sound. On the one hand, the countryside is largely an anthropological and architectural landscape, transformed by a myriad of utilitarian constructions, many of them centuries-old: grain mills, olive oil mills, irrigation canals, houses, threshing floor, wells, community laundry places, granaries, mines, stone walls, chapels, churches, bandstands, streets, alleys, squares, farmlands, roads, etc.. Moreover, many of the rural buildings have an acoustic specificity, so it is possible to recognize the architectural typology by listening to these places.<\/p>\n

SOUND AND RURAL ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL will explore possible interactions between landscape, architecture and sound in the rural context of the Gralheira Mountain Range, municipality of S\u00e3o Pedro do Sul (Portugal). The festival will host artistic projects that will acoustically “activate”\u00a0 different types of rural buildings, through the creation of installations and sound sculptures in specific context, in parallel with experimental architecture projects and anthropological field work, that will all together help to understand aspects of specificity and identity associated with the built environment, and will speculate on potential uses for the local rural architecture, much of it in a state of abandonment.<\/p>\n

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