Locd52r - Edwin Lo - Auditory Scenes: Environmental Sonic Improvisation (limited 50 cdr)

Bio:

Born in 1984. Edwin Lo, sound artist, field recordist and phonographer form Hong kong. He is currently finishing his final year of Degree in School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Through different experiments on sound ---- whatever in computer or in recording process ----

Edwin Lo tries to think sound as an object of desire, as haunting memories and experiences, and articulation of our consciousness and awareness on listening.

Brief Description:

Sound walk, field recording or phonography is not just a way to re-listening and re-discover the sound of a place; it is also a way for reproducing the sonic environment. To a certain extend, this piece was made by the improvisation of pointing with different direction of the location by the microphone. With a slowly movement of getting inside and outside of the sonic environment and the direction of the microphone, what we will listen is not just a purely sonic representation of the environment, but it is a slowly transformed progress, something happened within the environment. This work corresponds with French sound artist, Yannick Dauby talking about phonography: " It is about a practice during which the sound recordist will engage in a privileged relationship with an environment, through certain equipment. The result of this work, the final product, will therefore be a subjective point of view, a sensory experience that must take into account the position chosen by the sound recordist. Phonography does not allow us simply to present sounds, it requires us to present a specific hearing of those sounds. "

聲音漫步(sound walk)、田野錄音(Field Recording)或留聲術(Phonography)不單是再一次重新發現以及再次聆聽某一地方的聲音, 而更可以作為一種創作的手段。這個作品的目的, 不單止旨在重新發現後巷某一些的聲音的特質, 而更加是通過這個聲音環境來再一次生產、創造一種領聽的經驗。通過一種即興的方式, 以不同的獲取聲源的方向以及在環境中來來回回, 聽到的是一個緩慢的聲音進程, 一個已被再一次再呈現的建築物與建築物之間的環境, 事件穿插於其中。這個作品回應著法國聲音藝家澎葉生(Yannick Dauby)論及留聲術:「它所牽涉的是一種實踐，錄音者在那之中，以他的某種裝備，和他所在的環境發展出的一段獨特的關係。而其工作成果, 也就會是種主觀性的視角, 而且這是由錄音者所選取的角度所帶來的一個感官經驗。收音實踐並非只是傳遞聲音, 它也是在傳遞"聽"。」

Tracklisting:

1. Auditory Scenes: Environmental Sonic Improvisation (20′03)

Recorded by Edwin Lo on 31-12-2007, Causeway Bay, HK.
Special thanks to Tita Hui, Heiward Mak.
Best heard with headphone.
Cover Design By Edwin Lo.

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