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Framework Radio: #587: 2017.02.26 [ian-john hutchinson]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in south korea by ian-john hutchinson. for more information see http://soundcloud.com/ian-john-hutchinson.

 

notes from the producer:

Field Recording in recent live performance in South Korea.

What is the nature of the contemporary sound object?

Given that the status of a field recording may be very dubious, and its fate may be oblivion, what are the strategies that artists have developed to present their field recordings and to generate audience engagement in listening to sonic representations. What tricks are artists pulling in attempting to get people to ‘open their ears and listen?’

Some overlap, some reinforcement among these questions will be sought in the context of the recent use of phonography for live performance in the South Korean speculative music scene.

There are four artists whose live performance documents can be heard in this short program.

The first is Korean artist Lee Daeil. In 2012 and 2013 Lee Daeil facilitated some opportunities for blind people, adults and children, to explore sound focused activities.

Lee Daeil Interview: July 2016

Ian-John: You facilitated some opportunities for blind people, adults and children, to explore sound focused activities. Tell me about that work.

Daeil: …we go on a field trip, with the blind people together, and I wanted them to memorize, to keep the moment in their minds through sounds, what they hear…and I choose the typical sites, such as very loud places like a traditional market, subway stations or metal factories…and I didn’t ask them nothing, like rehearsals etc…then later on the concert day I just asked them to recall the memories again…and surprisingly, this memory was very vivid and clear for them.

IJ Did they make field recordings themselves on that field trip?

D: No, actually not, they were just listening…they recorded in their mind, their brains, their spirits maybe…

IJ: Tell me about the performance. What was the basic idea?

D: I wanted them to mimic and vocalize the sounds, these moment…ambient memories that they had from these specific sites, and out of this vocal sounds I created a soundscape…so reproduced soundscape…and I asked them to just play(vocalize) what they remembered randomly and I gradually played the original field recording sounds through the speaker(s), and I gradually turned up the volume, so that their voices accordingly got bigger and bigger(louder and louder)…and the sound I played was very very loud and their voices were very very loud as well…and they could not listen (to) what they say, what they sing or what they shout…so it is a kind of equilibrium state, so it was like 3 or 4 minutes of very very loud moments, and then suddenly I turned off every sounds that I played, the field recording…and finally they could listen what the volume, and (to) the chaotic mixture of the soundscape that they created…that was the main concept that I wanted to show…

…actually it was not my main intention to differentiate the artificial sound and the real sound…I played the real field recording only because…to interfere with the blind peoples vocalization, for example in the market place there are many different sounds like people yelling “Buy this, I have fresh fruit” or something…I wanted to encourage them to be more vivid, I wanted to give them a clue to be at that moment again…

…I do not expect anything before I do the performance with them, because I do not do rehearsals…the only thing I do is I give clear instructions (about) what they (should) do…so after the concert it was great, it was not exactly what I thought that it would be, but it is very very striking and new…

Lee Hanjoon Interview:

Hanjoon: I recorded in Gosung, Gangwon-do, South Korea…it’s nearby the borderline of South Korea with North Korea…it is a really interesting place…

…I used the iPhone 4 and Rode IXY and Rode dead kitten (it is a windscreen, it is a really really important gear for my recording)…

…I record the sound of the beach, just the wave and the walk on the beachside…on the sand…the sound of my footprints…

…I recorded the sound of the beach and of my footprints about 3 or 4 hours…but I have a really nice chance because there is almost nobody in that beach, because it is nearby borderline about South Korea and North Korea…

Ian-John: How long was the final recording?

H: I can chop just 5 minutes because it is the longest file I can use…during (out of) 4 hours, just 5 minutes is usable…

IJ: How did you treat your recording during your performance?

H: I did a really simple job…just loop the things…just loop it and cross-fade it, and use just the simplest effect I think…reverb, delay and filtration, that’s all.

IJ: Did you use any other sounds in the performance?

H: No, not at all…just use two tracks, footprints and wave and simple effects. I use a laptop and hardware controller which interacts with my laptop, so I should link the things…performing on the stage is a kind of improvisation…so technically it needs a lot of preparation, but about expression…as an artist, it is a kind of improvisation…I always make a space to improvise on the stage…

H: Everything is controlled by Abelton Live 9, I think it is the best DAW for field recording and real-time interacting with hardware. And my controller is a Numark Orbit which is a wireless controller, and it has a gyroscope so I can express about the wave (with) my body, …and I use another controller, …it is a foot controller which can connect with expression pedals.

Rémi Klemensiewicz Interview:

Rémi Klemensiewicz: well, first…now I don’t have a proper visa here in Korea, so as a foreigner I have to leave the country every 3 months and the easiest thing is, within a day, go back and forth to Tsushima Island (대마도), so from Busan you have these very fast boats…it only takes 1 hour…so all the recordings I used during the performance were made in this boat…and basically the reason why I made it is because the sound of the boats motor, it actually has very rich, wide and complex harmonies in it…so I just recorded while walking in the boat from the front to the back, getting close to the windows etcetera.

I used the Zoom H2N hand recorder.

Actually, I didn’t treat my recordings at all, but I did use different tracks. On one hand I had a long recording on the main speakers with this continuous motor sound drone. I also used very small and bad quality portable mp3 speakers where I also played the motor sounds, but with different qualities, like on one we can hear peoples voice, another one will be with a lot of vibrating sounds like of the window etcetera…All the recordings I used were like a base for me to work with live…I played live with different instruments and tools like a synthesizer, effect pedals, contact microphones and my voice as well to actually accompany this rich and harmonious boat sound that somehow gave me the direction that I had to follow. So, I somehow wanted the recorded sounds to lead me…I played various type of sounds with different textures, but mainly focusing on the tone…on the general harmony provided by the boat sound.

Well there is something very special about leaving a country to another, that are both foreign countries for legal reasons…now I am in this very uncertain, unstable and somehow dangerous situation…so when I got on this boat with this kind of mood, this kind of melancholy feeling, I really got emerged (in) the boat sound. So even though I was recording, I was still into the sound and somehow lulled by it. …the music I played live was somehow the music I had in my head when I was in the boat…on the other hand, in a more neutral and less emotional way…I really wanted to make people focus on the potential of the…can you say?…non-musical sounds…I don’t know, for me it’s really musical…and just playing with the sounds was a way to insist on the musicality of the recorded sound. So I think it is all about where your sense is, where your attention focus on.

The different performances as a whole were interesting, I think, because it was diverse…I think that what was important was to see the way the recording was actually used live.

Second Heard Sound Shop staff member:

My work is called “중고소리가게”, or ‘Second Heard Sound Shop’ and is a participation work where gallery visitors can access and use a library of about 70 field recordings that I have made myself over the last 13 or so years.

There are boxes of CDRs, each with 1 recording on it, …and these are next to maps which indicate the locations where each recording was made. People can search through the libraries, select recordings and play them on 1 of 8 portable home-use CD players that are also provided. There are no headphones, so the sounds are played through the small speakers, and must re-enter the already sound filled world. The idea is that more than 1 field recording can be played at the same time, and more than 1 person can use the library at the same time, so some kind of field recordings collage can appear in the space…so it is really an excuse to allow interested people to check out field recordings, and a tool for composition building. Although I label the recordings, and use maps, I actually think of the recordings as being very abstract objects…and the compositions made with them seem to me to be highly abstract.

The shop has been open in 3 locations so far, for about 5 weeks.

In the beginning I was using a portable tape cassette recorder, then a Sony MD recorder and simple stereo microphone…and now I use Sony PCM M10 recorders. I often travel by bicycle to locations where I hope to collect recordings, so I can’t really carry any large pieces of equipment.

Remarks:

Rémi talks about being compositionally led by the headphone heard sound as he moved through the confined space of a boat. Hanjoon’s improvisation takes its cues from the sense of timing and sonic textures of the ocean. Daeil employs the recording to give dynamic indications to the performers. Second Hand Sound Shop recognizes the basic un-organized, complex and hyper-layered nature of the sound world surrounding us.

Each piece is a network of layers. There is the layer of the recording itself…the perspectives from which the recording is made. The recording refers to something which appeared and was heard, a spatial and temporal ephemerality. There are contingent factors which led to its making; there is the enigma of our relationship to its content.

And there is the layer of how the recording is then deployed so that it can become audible as a recording, it’s ‘second hearing’. During the performance the field recording is then given as something to be listened to, the representation enters another context.

This recording itself gestures towards its own borders, towards what lays before the fade in, what was to be heard beyond earshot, and the space after the fade out (which is the space we now occupy).

The aspect of radical ephemerality that characterizes environmental found sounds appears again as an aspect of the performance. Through the performance field recording is exploited for the making of another temporal, ephemeral sound object.

Seoul / Chuncheon, South Korea 2016

all interviews and performance recordings made by ian-john
except 1. Lee Daeil ‘Markets’ 2013 ; 2. Lee Hanjoon ‘Gosung beach field recording’ 2016; 3. Rémi Klemensiewicz ‘Daemado Ferry field recording’ 2016

1:44 Introduction

2:40 Lee Daeil interview

7:15 Lee Daeil performance document

13:30 Lee Hanjoon Gosang beach recording

14:52 Lee Hanjoon interview

17:05 Lee Hanjoon performance document

22:50 Rémi Klemensiewicz field recording and interview
25:00 Rémi Klemensiewicz performance document

43:20 ian-john interview

47:02 ian-john performance document

Framework Radio #427

2013.06.30 [mark vernon]

this edition of framework:afield has been produced by mark vernon, in honour of his new work, location recordings by east midlands tape recording clubs (1959-1978), which is being released as issue #5 of our framework:seasonalseries, summer 2013 edition. if you don’t know, mark has spent many years documenting and communicating with the original members of the tape recording clubs that existed in that area at that time, and has produced a number of radio shows featuring sounds from their archives. this will be his first actual release on the topic, though, and we’re very excited to be able to present it as part of our ongoing series.

we’ll be sending out more details on the release soon, but it is available for preorder now, as usual in exchange for your donation of 20€ or more to framework radio. show your support!

this show, focusing specifically on the leicester tape recording club, features different material to what is found on the framework:seasonal release. a few words from mark on the subject:

This programme is dedicated to all those who venture out into the world clutching cables, spools and microphones, leaving the solid comforts of bingo, the telly and the wife. Lost in their endless quest for the elusive, the enchanting, the all satisfying object they seek – the right sound, with a good signal to noise ratio…

The past is often said to be a foreign country. This programme features audio postcards from some of the inhabitants. Active in the 60s and 70s, the Leicester Tape Recording Club was a club for tape recording enthusiasts united in their dedication to the art of recording sound. Like a latter day Mass Observation these amateur sound recordists sometimes unintentionally captured the minutiae of a now surreal suburbia. A forgotten world of bri-nylon, briar pipes and tank-tops met an arcane society who spoke of tape-speeds and soldering irons. We take a nostalgic (and occasionally humorous) look at the club and its members as their memories wow and flutter like their disintegrating reel-to-reel recordings. This is a story not just of a club but a community, a community of hobbyists, amateurs and charming personalities who captured otherwise long extinct phenomena like ‘The Golden Wonder Boy’. Memories are made of hiss…

#501

we continue our framework500 celebrations with the 2nd disc of the upcoming framework500 release, whose works we mixed with one another and with another selection of sounds from the aporee soundmaps. we began this show with a framework introduction recorded for us by regular contributor, and contributor to framework500, felicity ford, who captured the moments during which she constructed the framework500 badges that will go into the early adopters pack, which each of the first 50 people to pre-order the release will receive. it includes felicity’s badges, stickers, drawing, postcards, and plenty more goodies – pre-order yours now and nab one for yourself!
the framework500 release page is now online, so you can read artist and track notes, look at pretty pictures, and hear more about the process of creating this glorious object. and then, when you just can’t resist any longer, you can click the shiny yellow DONATE button on the right, enter a sum equivalent to 40€ or more, and get your name on the pre-orders list, with all the other true-blue framework lovers.

http://www.frameworkradio.net/framework500

this wednesday we go to räpina to witness and document to production of the paper that our sleeve will be constructed from, the recording of which will be included on the release – keep an eye on our facebook page for images and sounds from that adventure!

[time / artist / track / album / label]

00:00 – 08:14 / felicity fold / framework introduction, recorded in the the uk
http://www.knitsonik.com

02:43 – 17:02 / kodama / cauldron / framework500 / framework editions
http://www.omnimemento.com/kodama, http://www.frameworkradio.net/framework500

12:29 – 19:26 / ben owen / stairwell bergen st / framework500 / framework editions
http://www.benowen.org, http://www.frameworkradio.net/framework500

17:42 – 21:12 / asmus tietchens / deb 1b / framework500 / framework editions
http://www.tietchens.de, http://www.frameworkradio.net/framework500

20:30 – 25:44 / flavien gillié / moineaux sur le balcon / sal rei, cape verde / aporee soundmaps
http://www.soundisall.net, http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=27218

22:43 – 29:09 / keith de mendonca / echo / framework500 / framework editions
http://soundcloud.com/keith-de-mendonca, http://www.frameworkradio.net/framework500

26:56 – 34:02 / eric cordier / les gardiens de la forêt / framework500 / framework editions
http://www.prelerecords.net, http://www.frameworkradio.net/framework500

30:09 – 39:27 / maksims šenteļevs / river styx / framework500 / framework editions
http://www.bernurits.com, http://www.frameworkradio.net/framework500

38:05 – 41:50 / chloé despax / animal market / guamote, equador / aporee soundmaps
http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=27192

40:25 – 46:30 / dallas simpson / tunnel improvisation (edited mix extract) / framework500 / framework editions
http://www.dallassimpson.com, http://www.frameworkradio.net/framework500

43:41 – 47:54 / martin clarke / varanasi / framework500 / framework editions
http://www.rockscottage.net, http://www.frameworkradio.net/framework500

47:00 – 51:00 / miloš vojtěchovský / carneval, masopust / czech republic
http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=27214

50:12 – 54:36 / toy.bizarre / ingeos / kdi dctb 295 [a] / framework500 / framework editions
http://www.ingeos.org, http://www.frameworkradio.net/framework500

52:39 – 57:00 / jonathan coleclough / köln fork / framework500 / framework editions
http://www.october-editions.co.uk, http://www.frameworkradio.net/framework500

we continue our framework500 celebrations with the 2nd disc of the upcoming framework500 release, whose works we mixed with one another and with another selection of sounds from the aporee soundmaps.

#498

Kodama (Hitoshi Kojo and Micheal Northam), Eric La Casa with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Jehanne Thibault, Yair Lopez, sounds from the Aporee Soundmaps by Carlo Patrao, Flavien Gilliē, OR Poeisis, and Henrik Schroeder, and a framework introduction recorded in India by Martin Clarke.

well folks, we’re getting very close. out next regular edition is show #500! and we have some celebrations planned for the rest of the year. first, of course, the show itself, which will be the first of a run featuring new and unheard works contributed by a group of the artists who have helped to make framework what it is. these works will then be released on the latest project by framework editions, framework500, harking back to the 4-disc release we made to celebrate our 250th show in 2009, framework250. for framework500 we have invited artists from framework250 back (the first time we have repeated artists in our release history) to contribute again to a new celebratory release. this time we have three discs, again in special origami packaging, with works by jeph jerman, asmus tietchens, peter cusack, dallas simpson, phill niblock, felicity ford, eamon sprod, richard garet, jonathan colecough, loren chasse, and 18 more! this release will again be available only through framework radio, in exchange for your generous donations. stay tuned for images and track details very soon!
meanwhile some great sounds in this show. long extracts from a the immense 4-cd project by éric la casa and jean-luc guionnet entitled home : handover, which involved interpreting and reinterpreting domestic spaces through documentation, discussion and, performance. also, another beautiful handmade release from the omnimemento label, a recent work by michael northam and hitoshi kojo’s kodama project (kodama and jean-luc guionnet also feature on framework500). first appearances on the program by french artist jehanne thibault and mexican artist yair lópez, whose cd release we featured is also available for free download from his bandcamp page (link below). and another selection of recent favorites from the aporee soundmaps, as chosen by aporee users.

[time / artist / track / album / label]

00:00 – 03:28 / martin clarke / framework introduction, recorded in india
http://www.rockscottage.net

02:18 – 14:26 / or poeisis / nocturnal, rain / kyoto, japan / aporee soundmaps
http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=25868

06:06 – 16:45 / kodama / archaea / phxa / omnimemento
http://www.omnimemento.com/kodama, http://www.omnimemento.com

12:09 – 22:10 / éric la casa & jean-luc guionnet / ii.4 – synthesis / home : handover / potlach
http://ericlacasa.info, http://www.jeanlucguionnet.eu, http://www.potlatch.fr

18:28 – 27:13 / carlo patrão / santa cruz sports field / são nova, portugal / aporee soundmaps
https://zeppelinruc.wordpress.com, http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=27030

21:07 – 30:56 / yair lópez / [title track] / paisaje sonoro del malecón de puerto vallarta / [self-release]
http://www.yairlopez.info, http://yairlopez.bandcamp.com

24:57 – 36:53 / jehanne thibault / le réveil / eskifjörður / kaon
http://thibaultjehanne.fr, http://www.kaon.org

33:17 – 45:28 / kodama / photon / phxa / omnimemento
http://www.omnimemento.com/kodama, http://www.omnimemento.com

36:39 – 41:52 / henrik schroeder / town hall, citizen center / berlin, germany / aporee soundmaps
http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=26992

40:55 – 51:39 / éric la casa & jean-luc guionnet / iii.4 – synthesis / home : handover / potlach
http://ericlacasa.info, http://www.jeanlucguionnet.eu, http://www.potlatch.fr

42:01 – 54:13 / jehanne thibault / le naufrage / eskifjörður / kaon
http://thibaultjehanne.fr, http://www.kaon.org

46:42 – 54:56 / yair lópez / cooperativa de pescadores / paisaje sonoro del malecón de puerto vallarta / [self-release]
http://www.yairlopez.info, http://yairlopez.bandcamp.com

53:10 – 57:00 / flavien gillié / under the bridge / anderlecht, belgium / aporee soundmaps /
http://www.soundisall.net, http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=27080

Kodama (Hitoshi Kojo and Micheal Northam), Eric La Casa with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Jehanne Thibault, Yair Lopez, sounds from the Aporee Soundmaps by Carlo Patrao, Flavien Gilliē, OR Poeisis, and Henrik S

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