Post by corsair67 on May 21, 2007 11:35:28 GMT 12
I wonder if this symphony will include the drone of NIMBY's whining in the background? ;D
From The Australian -
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21751876-23349,00.html
Capturing sounds to excite jetrosexuals
Rosemary Sorensen
May 18, 2007.
LIVING under the flight path is like having the best seat in the theatre, according to sound artist Lawrence English.
He can't understand why people complain, and claims that when he's at his suburban Brisbane home, he thoroughly enjoys having his day punctuated by the rhythm of the planes overhead.
English has spent the past couple of months loitering beside Brisbane Airport, recording the sound created by aircraft taking off and landing.
Back in 1978, Brian Eno introduced Music for Airports, his first ambient album, but English's field recordings will be turned into Music of Airports.
He has captured phenomena rarely heard except by a small number of airport staff: the huge bank of sound that rushes down the tarmac and hits the mangroves at the airport's edge causing birds to fly up in alarm.
Selecting snatches of sound from his hours of recording, English then sent the audio files to composers in the US, Spain, Japan and Germany, and asked them to "meditate on the sonic environment of the plan".
The resulting Airport Symphony will be presented live in Brisbane during the Queensland Music Festival in July, and will be published on CD and online.
English is inviting sound artists to download his field recordings - including tarmac atmosphere, take-offs and landings - from the festival website. He hopes they will create their own compositions summing up their "experiences and understanding of airports and travel".
Brisbane Airport Corporation's spokesman Jim Carden said the collaboration with a sound artist would put the "romance, poetry and even musicality" back into travel.
"We like the mix of the mundane and the artistic," Mr Carden said.
"Airports don't normally hold a strong affection in people's hearts, so anything that tries to break down the cliches of the airport as a soulless, windswept, barren, unfriendly place, we're keen to support."
Performing the Airport Symphony onsite at the airport was considered but had to be scrapped because of security concerns - and the problem of competing noise.
The CD would have a ready audience, Mr Carden said.
"It might be an acquired taste but we will have no problems marketing the CD to people we affectionately call jetrosexuals - they're like trainspotters for planes," he said.
"Aircraft noise is like pornography for jetrosexuals."
The Queensland Music Festival, which runs from July 13 to 29, will launch its 2007 program today.
It includes a musical based on the long-running 1964 union dispute at Mount Isa, a Saints to Savage Garden tribute concert to Queensland rock music, and a collaboration between Melbourne-based jazz pianist Aaron Choulai and a Papua New Guinean choir, called We Don't Dance for No Reason.
From The Australian -
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21751876-23349,00.html
Capturing sounds to excite jetrosexuals
Rosemary Sorensen
May 18, 2007.
LIVING under the flight path is like having the best seat in the theatre, according to sound artist Lawrence English.
He can't understand why people complain, and claims that when he's at his suburban Brisbane home, he thoroughly enjoys having his day punctuated by the rhythm of the planes overhead.
English has spent the past couple of months loitering beside Brisbane Airport, recording the sound created by aircraft taking off and landing.
Back in 1978, Brian Eno introduced Music for Airports, his first ambient album, but English's field recordings will be turned into Music of Airports.
He has captured phenomena rarely heard except by a small number of airport staff: the huge bank of sound that rushes down the tarmac and hits the mangroves at the airport's edge causing birds to fly up in alarm.
Selecting snatches of sound from his hours of recording, English then sent the audio files to composers in the US, Spain, Japan and Germany, and asked them to "meditate on the sonic environment of the plan".
The resulting Airport Symphony will be presented live in Brisbane during the Queensland Music Festival in July, and will be published on CD and online.
English is inviting sound artists to download his field recordings - including tarmac atmosphere, take-offs and landings - from the festival website. He hopes they will create their own compositions summing up their "experiences and understanding of airports and travel".
Brisbane Airport Corporation's spokesman Jim Carden said the collaboration with a sound artist would put the "romance, poetry and even musicality" back into travel.
"We like the mix of the mundane and the artistic," Mr Carden said.
"Airports don't normally hold a strong affection in people's hearts, so anything that tries to break down the cliches of the airport as a soulless, windswept, barren, unfriendly place, we're keen to support."
Performing the Airport Symphony onsite at the airport was considered but had to be scrapped because of security concerns - and the problem of competing noise.
The CD would have a ready audience, Mr Carden said.
"It might be an acquired taste but we will have no problems marketing the CD to people we affectionately call jetrosexuals - they're like trainspotters for planes," he said.
"Aircraft noise is like pornography for jetrosexuals."
The Queensland Music Festival, which runs from July 13 to 29, will launch its 2007 program today.
It includes a musical based on the long-running 1964 union dispute at Mount Isa, a Saints to Savage Garden tribute concert to Queensland rock music, and a collaboration between Melbourne-based jazz pianist Aaron Choulai and a Papua New Guinean choir, called We Don't Dance for No Reason.
