Workshop Sonorous Cocktails In Quarantine

17-18.07.20

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In the bar of your window our listening is DJ. Collaborative Rockola of soundscapes

Spectrogram sequence BioGeoAntroAntro Viaje Sonoro - Sol Camacho, Camila parra - y Luisa Pinzón (2020)

During this quarantine, we at the Sound Journey Collective have dedicated ourselves especially to listening and exploring this singular experience through sound, hoping to evaluate the different dimensions of the soundscape (biophony, geophony and anthrophony) and its changes during and after the quarantine. We wanted to share the experience with more people, not only to expand our recording capacity but also because we thought it could be a good way to spend the quarantine, to entertain ourselves, to disconnect from noise and haste and reconnect with nature, with the environment in which we all live and that often goes unnoticed among our multiple occupations.

Together with Red Cratila, we launched the #PaisajeSonoroDesdeTuVentana (#SoundScapeFromYourWindow) initiative, inviting people from anywhere in the confined world to record from their windows a fragment of their daily soundscape, to take a picture of the view they had from there and to share a reflection. We have received a large number of contributions from different parts of the world, day and night, urban and rural, accompanied by profound reflections on the experience of interacting with sound and listening as if it were the first time.

Katherine and Bernie Krause's invitation about "how our song fits into the collective chorus" rightly touches on one of the most fascinating points we have found during #SoundScapeFromYourWindow: in general our more organic sounds, such as our voices, footsteps or music, have taken center stage as opposed to the sounds of engines or machinery that we normally emit especially in cities. Listening to the recordings received, we have perceived that these organic sounds really fit and interweave with the surrounding soundscape. In fact, more animals have begun to approach the spaces we have taken over and mastered, as if inviting us to form a collective chorus with them.

"Quarantined sound cocktails: in the bar at your window our listening is DJ. Rockola colaborativa de paisajes sonoros" by the collective Viaje Sonoro in collaboration with Luisa Pinzón, is an interactive piece that can be downloaded freely, for each person who wishes to participate.

The project is made in a pure data patch, where a selection of audios recorded and sent by the people who participate in our collaborative mapping project in quarantine #PaisajeSonoroDesdeTuVentana (#SoundScapeFromYourWindow) is gathered. These audios were all recorded from windows, balconies or gardens, mostly with cell phones or whatever material was at hand during the quarantine.

We initially used a selection of 66 audios divided into 6 (+3) categories according to type of environment, time of day, time of confinement and type of sound source.

Each participant can make a "sound cocktail", a personal mix of audios from different categories that will be randomly selected by the interface. And then he/she will be able to add some sound elements of the landscape and time and space effects such as delay and reverberation, as well as signal processing effects in real time.

Google Classroom group

Code: vcyvvic

Bar from your window Solbudapest (2020).

Created by:

Viaje Sonoro -Sol Camacho, Camila Parra- y Luisa Pinzón

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Listening Week

World Listening Day is celebrated every year on July 18 through the World Listening Project. For 2020, under the global theme of "The Collective Field", Cratila Network organized the Week of Listening, with workshops, concerts and presentations, taking into account the connection of the global theme with the special conditions of the pandemic.

There is something new going on.

The field itself is changing.

The creature world knows it.

The creative does too.

So what does it mean to listen now?

How do we express what we know?

Be alert.

Individually and in concert,

There is holiness in it.

In the midst of new conditions,

roam the field and explore

By call and response

The rhythm within.

How does your song fit?

Within the collective chorus?

The Collective Field

Elizabeth and Bernie Krause

World Listening Day 2020 Theme

Organized by: Cratila Red de Creación Sonora Participativa

In collaboration with: Expansiones Sonoras Música PUJ, Red Suratómica, NeoSapiens en Ekoradio.

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Organized together with:

Cratila Network

Juan FM