Hey,
I'm working on an immersive light/sound installation project for Fringe
2007 called Sounds Like Light, Lights Like Sound
(
http://www.frey.co.nz/categories/art/soundslikelight/), and I need some
suggestions for good noises to record for it. I'm most interested in the
sounds of machines and of liquids, but I'd also like to build up a sample
bank of interesting aural environments (for example the train station,
tunnels, forests, Kent Terrace on boy racer nights, etc).
If anyone has any suggestions for locations, could they post them here or
at
http://www.frey.co.nz/2007/01/14/interesting-sounds-around-wellington/
Also, if anyone is interested in working with me on narratives built from
sound and *simple* digital light control (no projectors), using copious
quantities of darkness and a sufficiently loud sound system to scare and/or
confuse people, do let me know.
cheers :-)
I've added the press release below...
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MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact:
Damian Stewart, 027 305 4107, damian(a)frey.co.nz
9th January 2006
SOUNDS LIKE LIGHT, LIGHTS LIKE SOUND
TRANSDIMENSIONAL TRAVEL THROUGH GLIMMER AND RUSTLE
This Fringe, Damian Frey invites you to come to Happy’s back room, enter a
breathing, living electronic space made of light and sound, and be taken
somewhere else.
Sounds Like Light, Lights Like Sound is a reactive installation built from
sound and light, designed as a playable world-creating light and sound
instrument with a mind of its own.
“I’m inspired by the feel of computer games like Half-Life, System Shock
2, and Doom,” said Frey. “These games create awesome emotional effect,
using sound and light to build an intense atmosphere.”
Sounds Like Light, Lights Like Sound draws on this power of raw sound,
light, and darkness to create emotion, transporting visitors to
otherworldly realms.
What makes it different from other installations is that it is reactive.
Without the input of the visitor, it’s just a room, static and unchanging.
But step into it and it comes to life.
“People will enter this space and they will feel like they’re taking
themselves somewhere else,” said Frey. “You are in control – most of the
time – but just where you end up will never be entirely certain. Imagine
moving through a darkened labyrinth with walls that keep on shifting,
inhabited by ghosts, phantoms, and portals to other places – that’s what
it’s like.”
Sounds Like Light, Lights Like Sound
Happy’s back room
Underground, corner Tory and Vivian St
Open daily except Mondays, 11am-7pm, Feb 16-March 3
Entry by koha/donation
Damian Frey - Biography
Frey has a website at
http://www.frey.co.nz where anyone interested can
observe the progress and construction of Sounds Like Light, Lights Like
Sound. He also has a myspace page at
http://www.myspace.com/freyed .
Frey has recently completed his final year studying Sonic Arts at the
Lilburn Electroacoustic Studios in the New Zealand School of Music,
directed by renowned composer Lissa Meridan. He has worked as a computer
game programmer and a designer of interactive display systems for museum
gallery installations. He is also a performing musician, playing laptop as
a live performance instrument both solo and in groups.
Selected appeances from recent years include: performing as part of the
Fringe 2005 Best Music award-winning Ascension Band; performing alongside
Norwegian sound artist Biosphere at the Catchpool Found Sound Project
(2005) and Canadian techno star Deadbeat (2006), performing with video
artist Emil McAvoy at Interdigitate 06 (Auckland, 2006), Soundtracks 7
(Wellington, 2006), Indeterminacy and Interface (Wellington, 2005) and
Intimacy and In.yer.face (Wellington, 2006); and composing soundtracks for
two short films by Wellington filmmaker Alouis Woodhouse and the feature
documentary Father of the House by Simon Burgin and Xavier Forde (2005).
Frey is also a founding member of the While You Were Sleeping audiovisual
art collective.
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Media Contact:
Damian Stewart, 027 305 4107, damian(a)frey.co.nz
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Damian Stewart
+64 27 305 4107
f r e y
live music with machines
http://www.frey.co.nz
http://www.myspace.com/freyed