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1 week already!
Hi,
It is almost *exactly* one week since I arrived here in Kauppila, with the kind lift with Antti Y from Oulu railway station - the last leg of my journey from North London. Short in distance, long in time and endurance! :)
This week has gone very quickly, and yet many things done and experienced. I know Ii a little bit now, and especially getting to know some of the people around and about, and also the very very special river, and forest…. & the sounds too :) … so many sounds already captured on my minidisc device…. awaiting places in compositions to come soon. But not many sounds yet brought to me by yourselves; please email or visit to let me know - and/or send sound files - about your special sounds in and around Ii! :)
I have been very lucky to have found two acoustic pianos so far - both in Kauppila, and thank you Sanna & Helena for offering for me to enjoy playing them (see mainly on this link for the improvised recordings: http://audioboo.fm/sponde_Ii). These brief times playing in this way - free improvisation, and only for a few minutes, and almost every day, is really a personal experiment. I want to see what I find, and how it might change during my residency stay here, and whether I change.
In the next week or so I will also start making compositions from the sounds I am recording as I walk or cycle around Ii - layers and sequences of real world sounds, to reflect the poetry of where we are.
There are other sonic things I hope to be exploring too … and more about that later ….. :))
I am so glad that I was here just in time to stand on the frozen river, and to ski in the forest (my first time on ski’s! - crazy isn’t it ! - slowly I am experiencing all these ‘normal’ things! :)
Well, more here written sometime soon. Oh, and did you know you could post something on here too .. ?? …. don’t leave it all to me …. :)
best wishes,
Dave, aka Sponde
Sunday 17th April 2011
first day
well, I arrived late Sunday night after a slow journey with ‘night-buses’, train, plane, bus, train, and finally a car ride from Oulu to KulttuuriKauppila courtesy of Antti!
Mostly have been settling in, and working on a composition for an exhibition in Poland in collaboration with Joanna Hoffmann (http://wro2011.wrocenter.pl/site/en).
I have used actually a few sounds recorded yesterday here in Ii in this composition … :) , and some sounds from a previous trip to Northern Finland…. more about all this later…. and who came to visit me on my first day, with some sound….
I am very happy to be here :)
Audio Boo! :)
An easy way to get the sounds to me is to post audio messages on my AudioBoo page:
Please send me any local sounds that you really like, and/or inspire you, and/or you find curious/interesting, and/or are important to you …… and please can you write or say a sentence or two to explain things and describe where the sound is from or how it is made ?
How to do it ?: record or transfer an audio file on to your computer, and then on my audioboo page , look for the ‘start recording’ button on the right … and then follow the instructions to choose a file, and upload it. Good luck! :), and I look forward to listening to the sounds…..
nb. audio clips are limited to 5 minutes maximum by that website
A big thank you, :)
Dave
(aka Sponde)
kulttuurikauppila regional arts centre
This regional Art Centre, where the internationality and tradition converge into a new kind of culture was built by the municipality of Ii and the European Union year 2006 to the idyllic tradition environment by the riverbank of Ii, near Oulu, Finland.
(photograph courtesy of Veronica Slater, artist in residence 2009/2010)
Through the Artist-in-Residence programme KulttuuriKauppila supports and produces international professional art. The guest artists are provided time and space to work in peace separated from the everyday haste, new contacts to the art field as well as to the local community, and of course through the idyllic surrounding space to breath and to develop own artistic expression.
a sonic request ..... :)
- I have a little 'local' request actually
- … I am interested in the sounds in and around Ii :
- …. your *special* sounds
- …. Could you record any local/domestic sounds that intrigue you and/or that you like/treasure, and/or that are important to you? Also please can you write a sentence or two about the sounds? They can be short clips or longer recordings - email soundfiles (eg. mp3’s or whatever format) to me at dave@sponde.co.uk :
- ...... and I will use them in a composition
- best wishes,
- sponde
- : )
Sponde @ The State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 2009 (KryoLab 1 performance - collaboration with Anna Dumitriu & Antti Tenetz)
I am nearly there! ….. :)
This is a special ‘hello’ to everyone in Ii, and at kulttuurikauppila - especially those that I might meet during my residency in April 2011 (and September). My name is Dave Lawrence, aka Sponde - based in London, but somewhat of a wandering nomad…
Preparations and thoughts about spending time with you at kulttuurikauppila have been bubbling away for some time now …. and at last it is nearly here! I am a sonic artist and based in London UK - you could find out more about my work and interests by checking www.sponde.co.uk
I have a little request actually … I am interested in the sounds in and around Ii …. and your special sounds …. could you record any local/domestic sounds that intrigue you and/or that that you like/treasure, and/or that are important to you? Please also can you write a sentence or two about the sound? The sounds can be short clips or longer recordings - it would be great if you could email me any of your recordings (eg. mp3’s or whatever format, maybe using your phone ?) - to dave@sponde.co.uk
all the best, and looking forward to meeting you,
Dave aka sponde
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