Site specific 'Places of Act'
the former Federal Assembly
- new building of the National Museum
New Maps of Time – sound workshop with John Grzinich
Oct 9 - 16, 2009
The mapping of subjectivity, the experience of the body, time and genius loci through sound, movement, acoustics and digital instruments.
Workshops focused on various methods of mapping the architecture of urban spaces using sound, actions and image. Reflections on experiencing a city by intervention to a public space and a joint multimedia performance. The group of workshop participants will record on subjective maps specific places in Prague and its periphery, articulate and reinterpret relations to the landscape and architecture with special regard to the industrial past. The project begins by investigating sound inspirational locations. These can be interiors and exteriors, passageways, underpasses, abandoned factories, workshops, courtyards, gardens or cellars. After finding and selecting these places the workshop participants will try to sonificate them. The next stage will consist of various technical instruments and means of capturing the sound of a space and of acoustic actions and recording some of them on video.
John Grzinich is a musician, composer, sound artist and video artist. He was born in the USA in 1970 and lives in Mooste, Estonia. Grzinich’s poetics and aesthetics are derived from the inspirational sources of microtonal music and psycho-acoustics. He picks up, decomposes and combines sonic, morphological and chromatic aspects of natural processes and seeks their mutual relations and new meanings.
Prepared in conjunction with FAMU (the Open EYE project) and the Vestiges of Industry conference.
Oct 9-16
the building of the former Federal Assembly
and surroundings