Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas

Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas

Spanish born Salinas and American Bergman form an accomplished sound art duo, specialising in the manipulation of found sound. Based in Oslo, their work comprises of sound art, installations, web projects and video art. They have exhibited in museums, galleries and art ceneters around the world.

In 2002 they won an Award of Distinction in digital music for the audio installation 'Revisionland'.




The Detroit Rebellion projected through feng shui objects


This installation piece by Bergman and Salinas explores the concept of how ideas survive through time, particularly how the lifespan of an object is determined by how they are passed through generations to become tradition.

Beyond this, the piece interacts with the viewers understanding of space, which obviously realtes to the project "Sense my space". The reason I chose to look at this installation in relation to my work is due to its portrayal of light as the artists ask the question "Where does light come from?". This questioning of light appeals to me because of the close link between light and vision, sound and hearing.



The art piece consists of of a very minamalist composition of feng shui objects set up in such a way to allow a large and looming shadow of the bonsai tree to be projected onto the corner wall behind the objects. This wall itself also shows a moving image of the streets of Detroit projected onto it.

The image of the bonsai tree projected onto the wall led me to consider the idea of using projected images in conjunction with sound for my own project. Beyond this i've also considered shadow puppets as a more playful way to convey an image or narration of my sound recordings.



Here you can watch the interview given by Bergman and Salinas on their Feng shui installation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqYJY0mVOdQ

Another art form to look at in relation to Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas is their noise music, which is then heavily incorporated into their sound art.

An interesting piece to look atwithin this sphere is  their album Be Mine, which features a sound board which allows you to overlap clashing sounds as you desire creating an interesting array of sounds and the ability to see for yourself which sounds can stand out more then others. This particular piece features conversation, interview pieces, found sound, trumpets, crickets and music creating a surprisingly harmonious piece of sound art. The piece itself is based on the idea of love.

http://www.alejandra-aeron.com/be_mine.html







 Scotch Monsters by Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas

Scotch Gardens consisted basically of an ornamental style garden combined with live Scottish folk music and the sounds of Scottich monsters, some of which were the Dunters and the Red Caps.

http://www.alejandra-aeron.com/scotch.html

On their website they provide pictures combined with the soundboard of noise music played at the exhibition, and even give an account of the legends of these monsters.

Memory and Sound

Studio 12, 23/9/12, 2:30pm

This is a drawing I did while listening to a recording I did of conversations, memory and imagination interlock with sound to overlap images based in reality and illusion. The yellow lines represent roads of which there had been a drawing hanging in the studio at the time. 

         

 

                                       

                                        

 

Studio 12, 2:40 pm, 23/09/12

Another drawing based upon the same concept however this is different because the conversation I was listening to while I drew was based upon an event I wasn't present for therefore my final drawing was based mostly on a combination of sound and memory.


http://vitazek.tumblr.com/#17371102691
"Drawings based on sound visualisation of S/M videos, about layers of reality, about people pleasure in pain, and atheistic views on life based on that observation".









Beautiful combinations of sound, drawing and print by Daniel Michael Clarke:

http://www.danielmichaelclark.com/tunnel-face/



http://www.danielmichaelclark.com/the-boy-who-cried-frogs/

Listening to Noise and Silence

13:23 pm, studio 12, 21/9/12

I've been looking quite a bit at sound art after reading "Listening to Noise and Silence - Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art" by Salomé Voegelin.

Here's a couple of my favourite quotes from the book that I think help explain sound art. Credit to the author of course.

"Sound fleshes out the visual and renders it real, it gives the image its spatial dimension and temporal dynamic"

"By contrast (to seeing) hearing is full of doubt: phenomenological doubt of the listener about the heard and himself hearing it".

"However far its source, the sound sits in my ear"


"I cannot hear it if I am not immersed in its auditory object, which is not its source but sound as sound itself".

Beyond this the book explains the need for active participation in listening.

"Listening is not a receptive mode but a method of exploration, a mode of walking through the soundscape"

"sound narrates, outlines, fills but it is always ephemeral and doubtful"

Luigi Russolo

My Project Title: "Spaces within Conversation" - Sound Art

Luigi Russolo: The Father of Noise Music

Sound Art began with Luigi Russolo, an Italian futurist painter and composer, considered one of the first 'noise music' composer. He wrote the manifesto "The Art of Noises", now well known and accepted by many artists and musicians.

He gave performances termed 'noise concerts', particularly in Paris but when he incorporated the noise intoners 'intonarumari' which he had designed and created himself he faced great opposition and even violence. None of these machines survived the Gran Concerto Futuristico (1917) but this had been expected by Russolo.



A photograph of Luigi Russolo with his noise intoners.

Though his work bears little resemblance to noise music today, Russolo's work is viwed as a major stepping stone in the evolution of this new art genre.

Though Russolo was better known as a composer he was also an accomplished futurist painter. With the futurists he worked with movement, attempting to capture on canvas the essence of both the dynamic and the simultaneous.


The Uprising - Luigi Russolo



Dynamic Automobile - Luigi Russolo

I chose to include the paintings of Russolo because despite the fact that he is attempting to capture movement I think the sharp angles, vibrant colours and sense of force embody sound too, which is naturally a component of movement.