Bernie Krause at Saint Vincent's beach, Florida

Produced by
Electronic Music Foundation
Ear to the Earth 2010

Bernie Krause

Yolande Harris


Thursday, October 28, 8pm
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street

$15 / $10 seniors & EMF Subscribers / $5 students


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PROGRAM


Bernie Krause
Fish Rap: The Life-Affirming Soundscapes of Water
   A talk on the history of human music

Yolande Harris
Fishing for Sound
    Performance with underwater field recordings and sonified data

 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS


Bernie Krause
Since 1968, Bernie Krause has travelled the world, recording and archiving the sounds of creatures and environments large and small. He has produced 55 CDs and creates interactive environmental sound sculptures for public spaces worldwide.  He is currently engaged in writing a book titled The Great Animal Orchestra:  Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places.


Yolande Harris
Amsterdam-based composer/sound artist Yolande Harris works with sound and image in environment and architectural space. She has presented her work internationally, at MACBA, Schirn Kunsthalle, ISEA, Sonic Acts, and Transmediale, and she has received fellowships at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Jan van Eyck Academy, and Netherlands Media Art Institute.

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ABOUT THE EVENT

Every stream, ocean, lake, beach, marsh, fen, and pool on earth has its own resonance and special geophonic voice, each soundscape adding another layer to the acoustic structures that engage us as music.

 


Spectral map of animal sounds

Noted composer and bioacoustician Bernie Krause addresses the question of how animals (and water animals) taught us to dance and sing, drawing from his book, The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World’s Wild Places, due for publication by Little Brown (Hachette) in 2011. Find out how the organizational acoustic forms that have inspired human music can be found in the biophonies of rainforests, arctic regions, oceans, lakes, and riparian habitats worldwide.

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Sailing, swimming and fishing highlight embodied and technological ways of knowing and relating to water environments, where sound forms a fundamental part of our experience. In her audio-visual work Yolande Harris addresses this otherwise alien environment, where water, wind and weather connect through the direct experience of undulating surface, breathing, equipment and navigation. Fishing for Sound creates a sea of spatial connections between phenomena underwater, in the mind, and from outer-space, weaving sounds from marine environments, psychotherapy and sonified navigation satellites. Common to each of these is a mass of background noise (of environment, memory and information) where listening is like fishing for sounds.


Harris' Pink Noise and Video Organ

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