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Jana Winderen, Artist's Talk_MG_7418
Lovebytes 2012 - Digital Spring.
Spawning Ground: A multichannel sound installation by Jana Winderen
Saturday 24 March 11am - 4pm
Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, Sheffield. S1 2JD MAP
Set in one of Sheffield's hidden architectural gems, this sound installation explores the acoustic activity of subaquatic environments. These soundscapes, evolved from the beginning of time, are essential components of life for the creatures inhabiting them.
Using an immersive 8.1 speaker system, Spawning Ground presents sound recordings from rivers in Greenland and Russia, the Coquet river in Northumberland, Göta elv in Sweden, and the river Ping in Thailand. Discover the unusual sounds of Cod, Haddock and Pollock as they are recorded in Norwegian fjords protecting their habitats.
Curated by Mark Fell and Mat Steel.
Jana Winderen is one of the world's foremost field recording artists. She will be talking about her work in the Upper Chapel at 3pm 24 March. ADMISSION IS FREE.
Jana Winderen is an artist, educated in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London, and with a background in mathematics and chemistry from the University in Oslo. Since 1993, she has worked as an artist, curator and producer. She currently lives and works in Oslo.
Jana Winderen researches hidden depths with the latest technology. Her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. The audio topography of the oceans and the depth of ice crevasses is brought to the surface. She is concerned with finding sound from hidden sources, like blind field recording.
Artist Statement:
"I like the immateriality of a sound work, and the openness it can have for both associative and direct experience and sensory perception. I have been occupied with finding sounds from unseen sources of sound, like blind field recordings. Over the last seven years, I have collected recordings made by hydrophones, from rivers, shores and the ocean in Asia, Europe and America, from glaciers in Greenland, Iceland and Norway. In the depths of the oceans there are invisible but audible soundscapes about which we are largely ignorant, even if the oceans cover 70% of our planet. I am also experimenting with different types of microphones to collect sounds which are not obviously recognisable, but give room for broader, more imaginative readings or sounds that are unreachable for the human senses. I use these sounds as source material for composition in a live environment or to create installations, currently also for film, radio, CD, MC and vinyl productions."
Lovebytes 2012 - Digital Spring
A Festival of Art, Science and Technology
22-24 March
Sheffield UK
Jana Winderen, Artist's Talk_MG_7418
Lovebytes 2012 - Digital Spring.
Spawning Ground: A multichannel sound installation by Jana Winderen
Saturday 24 March 11am - 4pm
Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, Sheffield. S1 2JD MAP
Set in one of Sheffield's hidden architectural gems, this sound installation explores the acoustic activity of subaquatic environments. These soundscapes, evolved from the beginning of time, are essential components of life for the creatures inhabiting them.
Using an immersive 8.1 speaker system, Spawning Ground presents sound recordings from rivers in Greenland and Russia, the Coquet river in Northumberland, Göta elv in Sweden, and the river Ping in Thailand. Discover the unusual sounds of Cod, Haddock and Pollock as they are recorded in Norwegian fjords protecting their habitats.
Curated by Mark Fell and Mat Steel.
Jana Winderen is one of the world's foremost field recording artists. She will be talking about her work in the Upper Chapel at 3pm 24 March. ADMISSION IS FREE.
Jana Winderen is an artist, educated in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London, and with a background in mathematics and chemistry from the University in Oslo. Since 1993, she has worked as an artist, curator and producer. She currently lives and works in Oslo.
Jana Winderen researches hidden depths with the latest technology. Her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. The audio topography of the oceans and the depth of ice crevasses is brought to the surface. She is concerned with finding sound from hidden sources, like blind field recording.
Artist Statement:
"I like the immateriality of a sound work, and the openness it can have for both associative and direct experience and sensory perception. I have been occupied with finding sounds from unseen sources of sound, like blind field recordings. Over the last seven years, I have collected recordings made by hydrophones, from rivers, shores and the ocean in Asia, Europe and America, from glaciers in Greenland, Iceland and Norway. In the depths of the oceans there are invisible but audible soundscapes about which we are largely ignorant, even if the oceans cover 70% of our planet. I am also experimenting with different types of microphones to collect sounds which are not obviously recognisable, but give room for broader, more imaginative readings or sounds that are unreachable for the human senses. I use these sounds as source material for composition in a live environment or to create installations, currently also for film, radio, CD, MC and vinyl productions."
Lovebytes 2012 - Digital Spring
A Festival of Art, Science and Technology
22-24 March
Sheffield UK