Kilpisjarvi, Residency Bioart Society, May 31st to June 6th 2011
Chorus: I am here to write music in remote locations, listen to the nature, record nature and record real time composing with a mac book pro, a custom made Max/Msp patch and a Tascam stereo recorder/ microphone. This is part of my ongoing curiosity, how to connect digital music and wilderness. Furthermore I am searching for locations and possibilities to host a collective wilderness performance/ listening here in Kilipisjarvi, with locals, students and researchers. Here you find all my results, music, pictures and thoughts:http://kilpisjarvi.poemproducer.com/
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Questions remaining: Can any micro sound be found in biology, something we can not hear but is there nevertheless ? How to plant sound poetry permanently into forms of nature ? I am looking to find a technology which allows me to use alternative power. Conversion of natural energy forms to power up sound generating, performance and wireless transmission settings. Is there an energy source in this nature I could use to power my actions ? I am imagining something like portable earth heat distraction or a portable wind mill ? Ex-military solar patches which merge with a flat speaker ? How close is my hum to joik ?
The primary sound you hear here is variations of wind, birds, cars, water and if you listen closely, ice. I was inspired by the evening long talk and exchange of thoughts with Leena Valkeapää, who lives and amazing life with an old Sami reindeer family. It was truly heartening. We ended our conversation with realizing that my humming on the mountains into software is not that far away from Joik, a practiced voice art up here. I found that there is amazing beauty in nature and biology and also violence but sound does not seem to translate this happenings, the wind goes on as it has too. I mean, you can see how powerful and beautiful this wild life is but you can not hear it ! How deaf are we ?
It turns out extremely difficult to record the wind I hear, The microphone is always contributing to strongly to the sound. I tried to immitate the wind with my voice through my max/msp patch. Listen!
Find more sound and images on my website. http://kilpisjarvi.poemproducer.com/
Thanks to Bioart Society, specifically Leena, Erich and Antero. Thanks to Goethe Institute for contribution for travel costs!