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REALITY SOUNDTRACK

 

Moving sound intervention in public space(2003)
di Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec

in collaborazione con Radio Onde Furlane

 

 

 

 

 

The goal of the intervention is to transpose a real situation in public space onto a plane of fictionality. The sound intervention alters the mode of perception of a random passer-by listener. That which a listener sees becomes a fiction and support for that which he or she hears.
The result of such alienation is that the listener no longer perceives reality as something that has any immediate effect on his or her own existence but, rather, accepts it as an aesthetic phenomenon; this, however, may present a direct threat to his or her own existence.

RS (REALITY SOUNDTRACK) is sound intervention in public spaces as post offices, passages, shopping malls, streets, ... Sound carriers are people equipped with small radio receivers – 30 or more people, each one having 1 radio receiver. All these radio receivers transmit the same electronic composition, which is transmitted from a mobile short range radio station, or even better, from an existing radio station. The radio receivers should be small enough, so it is possible to put them in a pocket or a bag – they shouldn’t be visible. All the participants – carriers are walking together through parts of a city following a given score of movement. The audible result of the action is a moving cloud of sound, which is traveling through a city. The duration of the intervention is flexible, best around 2 hours in the afternoon time.

TAO G. VRHOVEC SAMBOLEC (born 1972 in Ljubljana – Slovenia) was studying clarinet in Trondheim – Norway, and music composition and sonology (electronic music) at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague – Holland. He was studying with: Louis Andriessen, Clarence Barlow, Gilius van Bergeijk and Martijn Padding. He lives and works in Ljubljana and Amsterdam. His work consists of audiovisual installations, sound interventions in public spaces, written music for silent films, chamber (electro-)acoustic music, improvised electroacoustic music, sound design for video, Internet project and collaborations with visual artists. One of important issues in his installation work is questioning the established forms of communication of music and sound.