Virtual Residency Day Seventeen, Comparing Sites
I just downloaded the detail views from the Geumgang site in Korea. What I was looking at was a concrete banked ditch or stream- likely a stream, with a bridge over it, mudflats, street views of a small city and details of a mountain path. In the context of this project, Anke has referred to the mountain as the "singing mountain". We hope to record various sounds from the mountain: to let it "sing" for the concerts.
The path is lined with what seems like a young forest- trees with slender trunks and rock outcroppings that don't seem significantly geologically different than the rocks here in Maine, altho they probably are. I printed the images to study further. Without botanical knowledge, I have no way of knowing what the age or the species of the trees may be for certain, anymore whether I can know the horse chestnuts in Pescia and in India are the same species. Orginally, I had planned, had I been there in person, to arrange some of the loose rocks and paint arrangements of rocks, branches and trees. I would have painted them with the same blue paint being used in Pescia for the chestnut trees- "Numbered Trees", at Verdearte. There was more to it than that but it amounted to sky blue on the forest floor witha strategy for marking change.
Earlier, I had been on the phone with Rob Rosenthal, a sound documentarian, who has recorded the waterfronts and fishing routes around the islands. After getting off the phone, my dog and I walked down to the garden, where I ate black currants and considered the mudflats here at low tide, comparing them to the images I still had in my head from Korea. Of course there are different species and conditions, but they have generic similiarities.
In New Delhi there is also a "captive river" I hope to record but the city that surrounds it is probably far more sprawling that the one in Gonghu. will this mean the sounds will be significantly different and how will those sounds differ from the waterfront in Maine? What I expect is that there will be as many similiarities as differences. One problem I expect to see everywhere is a lack of value put upon the waters. But that probably will not show up on audio.
The path is lined with what seems like a young forest- trees with slender trunks and rock outcroppings that don't seem significantly geologically different than the rocks here in Maine, altho they probably are. I printed the images to study further. Without botanical knowledge, I have no way of knowing what the age or the species of the trees may be for certain, anymore whether I can know the horse chestnuts in Pescia and in India are the same species. Orginally, I had planned, had I been there in person, to arrange some of the loose rocks and paint arrangements of rocks, branches and trees. I would have painted them with the same blue paint being used in Pescia for the chestnut trees- "Numbered Trees", at Verdearte. There was more to it than that but it amounted to sky blue on the forest floor witha strategy for marking change.
Earlier, I had been on the phone with Rob Rosenthal, a sound documentarian, who has recorded the waterfronts and fishing routes around the islands. After getting off the phone, my dog and I walked down to the garden, where I ate black currants and considered the mudflats here at low tide, comparing them to the images I still had in my head from Korea. Of course there are different species and conditions, but they have generic similiarities.
In New Delhi there is also a "captive river" I hope to record but the city that surrounds it is probably far more sprawling that the one in Gonghu. will this mean the sounds will be significantly different and how will those sounds differ from the waterfront in Maine? What I expect is that there will be as many similiarities as differences. One problem I expect to see everywhere is a lack of value put upon the waters. But that probably will not show up on audio.
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