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P21_Soundpiece @ Schouwburgplein
Curating the sound gallery of the Schouwburgplein that reflects the cultural live of the city of Rotterdam.Since the NewCanvas©Poetry&Art, part of the 37 Poetry International Festival, there is a sound-installation, the Soundpiece, under the floor of the Schouwburgplein, Rotterdam. This installation was placed by the artists Jasper Niens, Kamiel Verschuren en Thijs Ewalts.
By order of Rotterdam Festivals, the new owners of the installation, a strategy was made for a sustainable use of this installation. The Soundpiece has the ability to make the Schouwburgplein the urban cultural foyer of Rotterdam. By sound, the rich and divere cultural life of Rotterdam is spread in the public space.
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En Plein Publiek
Who can guess which Rotterdam Square is played on Soundpiece can win tickets for performances in De Doelen or Rotterdamse Schouwburg.
If you would be walking on Schouwburgplein on a working day between 16.oo and 19.oo between September 26 and October 7, you could
have the impression that you are dwelling in another part of the city. Exclusively for Soundpiece, sound artist Jorg Schellekens made the project En Plein Publiek. Out of soundrecordings of 4 different Rotterdam Squares, he made 4 soundscapes, each of them takes 20 minutes.If you can guess 3 of these 4 squares right, then you can win tickets for performances in the De Doelen or Rotterdamse Schouwburg. Send your answer before
October 7th to Soundpiece@rotterdamfestivals.com.
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Soundgallery Summer 2o11
Every workday between 19.oo and 21.oo, from the middle of August until middle of September, Soundpiece performed as a Soundgallery, exhibiting soundscapes of different sound artists. The artists were asked to create a soundscape in which Rotterdam is represented by different sound atmospheres.
Inspired by the closeness of the sea, which plays an important role for Rotterdam, Ronald Rote made ‘the underwaterserie’, a combination of relaxed, lounge music and voice-overs of underwater documentaries.
Gerben Kokmeijer made a soundscape using field recordings of the sound the water makes near the Rotterdam riverbanks. These field recordings created the impression the Schouwburgplein was floating.
Zeno van den Broek made a soundscape existing
soundscape brought these locations auditory to the square.The importance of Rotterdam as hub between the sea and the Ruhrgebiet was the inspiration of Falk Hübner. He made a soundscape, based on field recordings of Rotterdam and the Ruhrgebiet.
Georgios Papadakis is fascinated by the sounds the city and the harbour produce. His soundscape is a composition of these daily sounds, creating a familiar atmosphere by use of these daily sounds, but at the same time an alienated atmosphere,
because of the visual absence of the elements to normally produce the sound.
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Still, Slow and Silence
How still, slow and silent is the city? In the talkshow Multitasken, David Dooghe was interviewed on his experiences as curator of Soundpiece.
“Still, slow and silence is in contradiction with the ‘city’. Cities have always been dynamic places full of movement and encounters resulting in sound. The sound of the city, however, has changed over the decades. Sounds used to be recognisable and traceable. Now new technology and machines create a constant surrounding noise, which can’t really be determined or localised. These sounds alienated us from our environment. Maybe the frequent use of mp3 players and Ipods by persons through the city could partly be explained in a way that, by masking the unknown sound of the city by recognisable sounds, we feel more at ease in the city. Because of this soundcocoon, however, we do not fully experience the city.
The effect Soundpiece has on people is therefore interesting. The size of the installation makes that, walking above Soundpiece, people are at one point totally surrounded by the sound of Soundpiece and the sound of the city fades away in the background. When they recognise the sound, people stop and look around hoping to find the source of the sound. It is a lucky coincidence that the sound of the installation can’t be localized immediately. Therefore because of Soundpiece people experience the Schouwburgplein more fully."
Multitasken is a talkshow with the focus on pop music, organised by Makers Collective Sandersgeluk and hosted by Vincent Cardinaal. Other participants on the talkshow: Lucky Fonz III (singersongwriter), Cilia Erens (soundartist), Ester Naomi Perquin (City Poet Rotterdam), Ronald Ligtenberg (Sencity), Falk Hübner (composer, researcher)
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from Africa to Brasil to Holland
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Wireless Debate
The physical world of the city and the virtual world of the internet are overlapping more and more. This has major consequences for both the way we experience public spaces and the way we exchange news and stories.
The conference Wireless Stories, New Media in Public Space will explore the possibilities and consequences of these developments for media producers.
During Wireless Stories, the conference lectures and debates will be audible live through Soundpiece. In addition, from noon to 2 pm, Soundpiece's daily lunchtime, programming produced in conjunction with the Poetry International Festival, will be audible live in the foyer of the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam.
More information about wireless stories: 17 february 2011 / 10.00 — 17.30 uur, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam.
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P21_Soundpiece @ Schouwburgplein
the rich and diverse cultural life of Rotterdam