The Migration of Data and Other Life Forms
A Sound Installation for the 70th Anniversary of the Darmstadt Summer Courses
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20486189 |
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| Authors | Nicolás Varchausky (Nicolás Varchausky (composer, sound artist, researcher), Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Roque Sáenz Peña 352, Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina B1876BXD.., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Pages | 3-7 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo Music Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-1215 • E-ISSN: 1531-4812 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/lmj_a_01035 |
| OpenAlex | W2890141608 |
| Language | EN |
The article discusses a sound installation premiered during the 70th anniversary of the New Music Summer Courses in Darmstadt. The project proposes a dialogue between the archive of the Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (IMD), which preserves the voices of contemporary music composers who lectured at the summer courses, and Archivo PAIS, the author’s personal archive of anonymous voices of street vendors, informal preachers, institutional announcers and street artists. Speech analysis software, transducers, modified stethoscopes and a 15-meter-long by 4-meter-high fence were used to reflect on issues of survival, access and displacement though sound
Acoustics · Art · Art history · Media studies · Physics · Sociology · Visual arts · American Literature and Culture · German History and Society · History · Music History and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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