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PhotobucketWelcome to the page of Maria Papadomanolaki.
I was born in Chania, a town in Crete, Greece. I enjoy working with field recordings, voice, found sounds and telematic performance. I also occasionally make radio. I have presented most of my personal and collaborative projects in a variety of (mainly) European and International festivals. I have spent the past four years working and studying in the UK (Brighton and London) where I had the chance to collaborate with a great deal of emerging artists. In January 2009, I relocated to Manhattan, New York where I am currently collaborating with free103point9 (New York) as a co-editor for a publication on transmission art and as assistant to a variety of events and festivals.

CV/Resume

Studies

2008-2009:MA Sound Art, University of the Arts London, UK (Distinction)
2005-2007:BA(Hons) Digital Music, University of Brighton, UK (1st Class)
1999-2003:French Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR

Awards/Grants

2008:Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, Greece
2007:The Schilizzi Foundation, UK
2007:Nagoya University of the Arts, Japan:Award for outstanding artistic achievement for STOMA

Selection of voluntary work

2009- :free103point9(NY):Assist in the organization of free103.9 events and festivals; assist in the research for free103.9’s transmission archive
2007-2008:Resonance FM(London,UK):Sound Engineer/ Editor / Producer
2003-2004:Kriti FM 101,5 (Chania,GR):Producer
2000-2001:1431 AM (Thessaloniki,GR):Producer

Selection of creative projects

2009:Radio Content in the Digital Age:Presentation of paper: Radio as the voice of community, locality, interactivity and experimentation (Limassol, Cyprus)
2009:Noise!2009:Co-curator (free103point9)
2009:Radiophonic Creation Day:Co-producer of Woodplay (free103point9, NY)
2009:Release of dalot's Flight Sessions EP (Coorecords, Greecce)
2008:Trajectory, Audio Forensics Exhibition: IMT Gallery (London, UK)
2008:Flight Sessions Radio Show: Resonance FM (London, UK)
2008:STOMA: Athens Video Art Festival (Athens, Greece)
2008:Amalgam: Multimedia Performance in a variety of festivals in Greece
2007:STOMA:Brighton (UK)
2007:Letgone(performance):Sunrise Festival (UK)
2007:Returning(short film): 700IS International Experimental Short Film Festival(Iceland),‘Video ex’ International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Switzerland)

19/01/10


  • Happy 2010 everyone!
    wwww.voicesoundtext.com     offers a series of free net-releases.Just visit the DWNLDS section on your left and click on the images to download dalot's post-rock-ish demo EPs 1,2 and 3, My Secret Demo's (at times) sarcarstic pop-tronika and the original soundtrack for multimedia dance performance Amalgam.

    07/01/10


    • Free n5MD compilation now available for download @ Bandcamp!

    17/05/09


    • Flight Sessions EP is OUT NOW! Order it online at Coorecord's Online Store




    • Woodplay will be aired on the 23rd of May 2009 during the 24 hour broadcast schedule of Radiophonic Creation Day.

      While Digital Radio (DAB) is spreading all over Europe, it’s time to remember that, since its birth, the radio has always been a medium for creativity and not just a powerful means of communication, capable of the best as much as the worst. This idea is still true for many radio and Web radio stations around the world which celebrate radiophononic creation everyday, through the production of inventive and surprising sound pieces.

      On May 23rd 2009, from midnight to midnight, will thus be set up the first international Radiophonic Creation Day, a 24h programming devoted to radio creation. More than 40 radios and artists, coming from 12 different countries, produced sound pieces that will be broadcast in streaming on the festival website and on FM via 9 radios in Europe. This festival is not only a way of showcasing the lively contemporary radiophonic creation scene, but also to introduce this art to a wider audience.

      The Radiophonic Creation Day attempts to include every aspect of radiophonic creation by proposing radio plays, creative documentaries, field recording, experimental and concrete music, sound poetry, Hörspiels and unidentified sound objects. We hope this event will inspire the production of creative programming in European radio stations and accelerate the setting up of a found to help radiophonic creation. Nowadays, this neglected art still suffers from a lack of financial help that continually threatens its position among the radio production line. For more info click here

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    • Noise! 2009 line-up is finalized. For more info click Here
      Noise! 2009 is co-curated by Maria and Tom Roe (free103point9)

  • Hi All,
    Just wanted to let you know that I am currently working for free103point9 on a composition entitled rugradio. The piece will be featured in Radia

  • I am also happy to announce that my paper entitled Radio as the voice of community, locality, interactivity and experimentation has been accepted for the forthcoming conference "Radio Content in the Digital Age" organized by the Radio Research Section of ECREA and the Cyprus University of Technology.

    13/03/09

    • I am really pleased to announce that I started a part time collaboration with upstate NY based community of Free103.9.

    20/01/09

    20/11/08

    • Trajectory in Audio Forensics

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      27 - 30 NOVEMBER 2008
      PRIVATE VIEW 27 NOVEMBER 18:00-21:00

      Libero Colimberti, Jan Hendrickse, Simone Izzi, Nitin Lachhani, Luc Messinezis, Maria Papadomanolaki, Vytis Puronas, Mark Shorey and Mark Wright.

      Comprising of ambitious works by nine artists who employ sound as the principle media of their practice, Audio Forensics demonstrates the breadth of engagement with sound in the arts, and how it can be re-evaluated in the context of an increasingly noisy world.

      Sound art encompasses a wide range of forms and concerns and has its precedence across many creative fields, yet, as these artists demonstrate, the acknowledgment of sound's significance in the arts is becoming of greater importance as technologies develop, and as the public become ever more aware of the interactions between sound, space and artistic practice.

      Audio Forensics provides an extraordinarily comprehensive inquiry into how sound, and its manipulation, influences our experience and understanding of our environment.

    • Symposium

      30 November 15:00-18:00 RSVP

      Symposium in which Ben Borthwick, Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, and Steven Connor, professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck, address issues of sonic practice raised by Audio Forensics. The symposium is free however places are limited. To reserve a place please call 020 8980 5475 or email mail@imagemusictext.com

      Audio Forensics is an exhibition and symposium presenting the final work of the first MA Sound Arts graduates of London College of Communication. The groundbreaking work in the exhibition demonstrates the high level of critical debate in sonic disciplines fostered by the university's Department of Sound Art and Design since 1998. The exhibition is co-curated by Electra and IMT

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Radioscapes

Here you can listen to a few samples of the work I have done for the radio. Choose one of the shows on your left to view and listen.


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Projects

My projects for galleries and exhibition spaces are based on the idea of audience engagement and performance. The content of the piece is formed and shaped by the participation of the listener who can engage further by becoming a performer. Both Stoma and Trajectory explore the idea of expressing, discovering and narrating though voice. As a matter of fact, human voice is the main tool for discovering the psyche or how we perceive and filter the experiences and environments we live in. It is also our most intimate and personal soundsource which, when detached from words, can become really musical. My pieces were exhibited in London (UK), Brighton (UK), Athens (GR).


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Radio

I initially started to work as a sound engineer for Resonance FM at the end of October 2007 which gradually led to my involvement in postproduction and editing of other people's radio shows. In December 2007 I took the step to produce my first radio show for the weekly series of one off shows entitled Clearspot. In this section you can see the tracklists and listen to a few of the shows.

AngloGreco Session

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An experimental set between dalot (my solo project) and Reteric broadcast on the 24th of March 2008. It consists of a live mash up of their favourite tunes, records, sounds and live audio manipulation. Some of the featured artists are Xenakis, Christou, AGF, Tortoise, Luciano Berio, T. S Eliot, Tim Hecker, Boards of Canada, daedelus, Marsen Jules, Astrobotnia, William Basinski, Delia Derbyshire, Squarepusher, Amon Tobin and exclusive tracks by Reteric.

More information about the the artists:



Kat Vipers

Kat Vipers is the female equivalent of Jerry Lee Lewis projected in the Future with a few other tricks hidden in her pocket ranging from strange oriental melodies to more prog rock structures. The Clearspot was broadcast on the 4nd of February 2008. I interview Kat about her influences, her released material, pianos, guitars and car boot sales! We also recorded some of her tracks live in the studio. More info about Kat Vipers on:

  • Kat Vipers Clearspot

Tracklist

  • Pearls of Wisdom (Summer Bloody time, 2006)
  • Hot Air Balloon
  • Freak (Summer Bloody Time EP (PY, 2006)
  • This is Now (Hot Air Balloon (PY, 2007)

Live:

  • I'm so lonesome I could cry (harp + vocal) - Hank Williams cover
  • Time has told me (harp + vocal) - Nick Drake cover
  • Wasting Time (Harp, vocals, tambourine) Hot Air Balloon 2006
  • Just Like Jerry Lee (harp, piano, drums, bass, vocals) Hot air Balloon 2006




Lena Platonos

As a follow up to Manos Hadjidakis's, the second Clearspot, broadcast on the 22nd of January 2008, focused on the work of visionary pioneer of experimental Greek Electronica Lena Platonos who collaborated and had a very close friendship with Manos Hadjidakis until his death.

For this Clearspot I chose to leave the sound to speak for itself about the greatness and the content of Platonos's work. Tracks taken from most of her albums are surrounded by field recordings of London Underground signifying a point of departure to a fantasy world where the soundscapes and the words of the songs assume a leading role in the scenery. Songs about the future, the speed, the emotional distress, the expectancy and the loss, the sensuality and the triviality become the scenery of the underground trajectories.

I would like to thank Fil Ieropoulos for providing most of the material and for introducing me to the magical word of Lena Platonos.

  • Lena Platonos Clearspot

You can learn more about the artist by visiting her myspace page:


Songs (in greeklish) featured in this programme:

  • Tora pou pas kai si sti lilipoupoli (Edw Lilipoupoli, 1980)
  • Mple-Mirabilia-Stop (Maskes Hliou,1984)
  • To tounel (H hxw kai ta la8h ths, 1985)
  • Ti nea psipsina (to gkalop, 1985)
  • Hesperia Iris Greca (Lepidoptera, 1986)
  • Hoping by Shoping (Maskes Hliou, 1984)
  • Taxigonio (Mh mou tous kuklous tarate, 1990)
  • Stin Erimo (Anapnoes, 1998)
  • Pthsh 201 (Sampotaz, 1981)
  • Oi trisxaritomenoi khpoi (To spasimo twn pagwn, 1989)
  • Emigredes tis roumanias (Coti K. cover, To mixer ths Lenas Platonos, 2001)
  • Ston asterismo tou pigkouinou (Sambotaz, 1981)
  • Anoi3h (Karyotakis, 1982)
  • Roza- Rozalia (Edw Lilipoupoli, 1980)
  • Epilogos (To 62' tou Manos Hadjidakis, 1983)

Manos Hadjidakis

The show was braodcast on the 20th of December 2007. My guest was filmmaker/musician Fil Ieropoulos and together we discussed about the life and music of influential Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis, his love for greek folk music and rebetika and how he merged successfully the eastern with the western, the pop with the experimental, classical with the folk, how his stay in the US informed his music and finally how instrumental his music and orchestrations were for the creation of a new wave of Greek music.

  • Manos Hadjidakis Clearspot

You can learn more about him by visiting his web page:


Clearspot Playlist - Manos Hadjidakis

  1. Intro theme : Dance of the poets - These Absurdities (1976)
  2. Moonless Night - Six Folklore paintings (1954)
  3. Conversation with Prokofiev - From a small seashell (1954) 3-4
  4. Love a double-edged knife - Stella (1955)
  5. Excitement in the village - Amerika Amerika (1963)
  6. Turkish Secuirity - Top Kapi (1964)
  7. The Clouds - Giocconda's Smile (1965) 7-8
  8. Introduction/ Dance - Captain Michalis (1966)
  9. 7/8 Hasapikos to Taurus - Rhythmology (1971)
  10. Kemal - Reflections (1970)
  11. White Dove- The Earth's Gold (1971) 11-12
  12. I love You- Magnus Eroticus (1972)
  13. Striptease for three boys - Sweet movie (1974) 13-14
  14. Where is Melissanthi? - The Era of Melissanthi (1980)
  15. Barrel - organ tune - Never on Sunday (1960)

Soundwork

I have composed music for dance performances, short films and animations. I also compose music for my solo project as dalot and have been member of the post-rock/electronica project cloudcub

Dalot

Dalot is the project alias of Grecian born electro-acoustic artist Maria Papadomanolaki. Her music as Dalot incorporates elements of ambient, phonography, electronica's more esoteric backbone, and a thoughtfully sparse use of stringed instruments. Her compositions have been featured in a variety of European and International festivals such as the Icelandic festival of experimental film and the Athens Video Art festival. More recently her work as Dalot has been been featured in Tom Robinson's Introducing on BBC 6 and on Resonance FM. Her debut EP “Flight Sessions” was released by CooRecords (GR) in 2009 and was thematically trumpeted by the imprint as "...a journey to your most inner beautiful hideaway". Shortly after the release of the EP Dalot signed on to the n5MD imprint and is currently working on her debut full-length due out sometime in 2010. In addition to her work as Dalot Maria has worked at any given time as producer, curator, and performer on various radio shows, art events and international festivals. She currently resides in New York where she works with the nonprofit arts organization free103point9.[Source: n5MD]
You can buy Flight Sessions EP at coorecords | n5MD | experimedia

Reviews
Flight Sessions EP:
Textura | Random Ezine | Athens Voice (p.70)

The promo Poster is designed by Sophia Kokkinis (Coo design).
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You can download for free Dalot's Ep1, 2 and 3. Just visit my DWNLDS section and click on the images to download.

Videos
  • Video for Eyeburn (Flight Sessions EP, Coo)
  • Video for goodnight safe flight (Flight Sessions EP, Coo)

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My Secret Demo

My secret demo is my "secret" solo project where I try to experiment with more pop and electronic song structures and instrumentations. The MSD "manofiesto" initially declared that MSD material should be distributed only on cassette. Each cassette should be costumised according to the person it is destined for by having his or her name as a title. The tracklists of the cassettes should be determined by chance operations. MSD has also remixed a track by Greek electronica duo Chromata. The track can be listened on their website : www.chromata.info and is featured in Demos Against Humanity. You can download for free all the demo releases from the DWNLDS section on this website.

www.myspace.com/mysecretdemo



Cloudcub

Cloudcub are a post folktronica group with references to shoegaze, instrumental and vocal electronica, folk and post rock.For this project I have collaborated with Sebastien Froment aka Dudu(bass) Filtig (keyboards and programming) and Thomas Dinas (Guitars and Toys). So,far the project has presented one EP entitled Colour and will be releasing its full lenght album "Friendly Warning" in November 2009. Find out more

  • Worrylines taken from Full length album Friendly Warning to be released in 2009
  • Whispering Whistle taken from the Colour EP, 2006)


  • Video for Avarey Rain.

Amalgam

Amalgam is a dance theatre performance by Caterini Dinopoulou*. Our collaboration started in 2006 while studying Brighton. The visual labyrinths echoing the Jungian philosophy and the Ancient Greek elegance are perfectly combined with the sound atmospheres consisting of disembodied voices, drone pads and noises. The sounds assume a conceptual role apart from complementing the images on screen and the movements of the dancers. The final version of amalgam was presented in Greek festivals and events during Spring- Summer 2008.


You can download the original soundtrack for free at the DWNLDS section in this website.


Here you can see one of the videos featured in the performance


Internal time - Body&Mind

*Caterini Dinopoulou is a dancer, choreographer and video artist. She has presented works such as the multimedia dance performance Amalgam and the audiovisual live installation 2^2 in both England and Greece. She has collaborated with Bicycle Ballet for an outdoor performance at the National Theatre's summer festival in London. The videos of the Amalgam performance have been awarded by The Video Art Gallery of London. She studied journalism. After an introduction to expressive dance and improvisation at Studio KER - Crete on 2000, continued training on ballet and contemporary dance in Athens, where she also attended a foundation course on visual arts. She studied Dance and Visual Arts at the University of Brighton. She is currently teaching workshops on choreography, performance and dance video in dance institutes in both England and Greece. She also collaborates with the Creative Bridges Events Company as choreographer and video artist. By getting scholarship from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, she started her master in Performance: Dance Maker at the University of Chichester, at September 2008.

Returning

Returning is collaboration with filmmaker and dance performer Marina Tsartsara. Returning is the journey of the moving body into the chambers of a woman's soul. It was showcased in many European and International Festivals of experimental short films in 2006 - 2007.

noise!2009

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Between March-June 2009, I assisted Tom Roe(free103point9) in the co-curation of 2009's Noise! festival. I performed an improvised piece where I jammed with the venue's bulky aircondition unit using a contact mic and live audio manipulation. I will upload the recording of it as soon as I get hold of it. You can see images and videos of the performances on free103point9's website

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Letgone

Letgone is collaboration with visual dance performer/designer Sara Popowa. It was a piece especially prepared for Sunrise festival (Somerset, June 2007).

Original Sketches by Sara Popowa

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Video

Phonography

My interest in location sound is apparent in many of my projects. I strongly believe in the importance of observing our everyday acoustic environments. I try to explore various urban environments and establish a close–up relation with spaces, activities or sounds that remain silent or ignored most of the time.

  • West India Quay Footbridge
  • Thames Waves
  • Canary Wharf
  • Clean-Up Truck
  • Southwark Cathedral

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Enigmai

Enigmai is an audio documentary about Southwark; its history as it is represented in its local history archive, the different aspects of its soundscape, the discovery of its hidden spaces, people and their actions through the personal trajectory of the recordist. It is also a summary of the artist's reflections on the paradox of trying to concretise a specific time and place by recording it and the importance of listening and learning from the soundscape.

  • Enigmai

Woodplay


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Woodplay is a collaboration with Tom Roe from free103point9. It is an improvised composition consisting of field recordings and radio transmissions around the woods of Wave Farm in Acra New York. It was featured in the International Festival of Experimental Radio, Radiophonic Creation Day on the 23rd of May 2009. More information about the programme and the artists you can find here

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  • Woodplay

Rugradio (Radia Episode #226)

Rugradio is an improvised, modern, yet outdated sci-fi exploration of my collection of music, sounds and sonic memoirs, compiled exclusively for radio.

  • Rugradio

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Flight Sessions

Flight Sessions was a four part mini guide to contemporary, underground Greek music. The show was broadcast every Wednesday at 7.30 pm (UK) on Resonance FM, 104.4, London from September the 17th until October the 8th 2008. The show focused mainly on : IDM, Electronica, ambient, ambient post-rock/shoegaze, experimental and noise. It was also broadcast by two other radio stations: Sound Art Radio (UK) and Rodon FM (GR).

The first edition of Flight Sessions broadcast on Wednesday the 17th of September 2008 was entitled Stories from the sea.

The three editions that followed were:

  • Episode 2: Night Visions (24th September 2008)
  • Episode 3: Sounds From the Stratosphere(1st October 2008)
  • Episode 4: 5 flights revisited (8th October 2008)

For more info about the show visit:

Flight Sessions Ep. 1 "Stories From the Sea"

Tracklist
  • Magnitophono - Robot can't swim (Unreleased)
  • Naono - Still Moments (ep: Tumbleweed Tracks, CCT records, 2008)
  • Absent without leave - Following a trembling star(LP: Postcards from nowhere, Distant Noise, 2008)
  • AZA - Echo (Unreleased)
  • Vello Leaf - Stellar wind (ep: Morning Star, Insight Room, 2006)
  • Dalot - Rewind (ep: Flight Sessions, 2008)

For more info about the featured artists, mini interviews, useful links and many more click here.

Flight Sessions Ep. 2 "Night Visions"

Tracklist
  • Tokyo Mask - Critical Mass (LP: Hinterlands, Low Impedance Recordings, 2007)
  • ANIKA - I see the unseen (A:0507, To be released, 2008)
  • Leaf - Polis (LP: Clouds, To be Released, 2008 - 2009)
  • Pridon - Fumble (LP: Apnea Eina, Low Impedance Recordings, 2008)
  • Ettin - Noiztrader(Released, 2006)
  • drog_A_tek - Zerrox (EP: Who Hurt you?,quetempo, 2005)

For more info about the featured artists, mini interviews, useful links and many more click here.

Flight Sessions Ep. 3 "Sounds from the Stratosphere"

Tracklist
  • Reverse Mouth - Black Moth (Ballades pour un patriote CDR, tanzprocesz, 2007)
  • Sonologik - Fonienda (Unreleased, 2008)
  • Nokalypse - Neverrest (Axiac Infinity, Echomusic, 2005)
  • Spyweirdos - Third (Ten Numbers, Creative Space, 2008)
  • Stavros Gasparatos - Fall (Rehearsals, To be released on Creative Space, 2008)

For more info about the featured artists, mini interviews, useful links and many more click here.

Flight Sessions Ep. 4 "5 Flights Revisited"

Tracklist
  • subheim- voces perdidas feat. Katja (LP: Approach, Tympanik Audio, 2008)
  • dergar - the passion (unreleased, 2008)
  • melorman- apricot fields (Unreleased, 2008)
  • Elica- Terminal 1(Unreleased)
  • chronik - Save me (V.A: MAEA, 9.12 records, 2008)

For more info about the featured artists, mini interviews, useful links and many more click here.

Stoma is an interactive installation inspired by Beckett's theatrical monologue entitled Not I. A short excerpt of the text is used as the canvas on which a series of pre-recorded interpretations of it builds up. The visitor is invited to perform in this voicescape by firstly recording his or her voice reading the same text for 40 seconds and then by listening to it for the next 6 minutes as it overlaps way with the disembodied voices inside Stoma. He/She is expected to provide a focused listening to the composition in order to fully participate in the performance.

The concept behind this project is supported by two parameters that interconnect. First, it is the treatment of a theatrical text as a musical one in order to give to it a new angle of interpretation and a new edge. Secondly, that decontextualisation is achieved by the use of the human voice. The performer provides his/her personal version of the text and witnesses a process of voice recognition and exploration within a predefined soundscape.

The listener will become aware of his/her voice subtly changing through a series of automated filter settings and hopefully recognise the musicality of its resonant frequencies. Its fusion with the unknown voices will create a supportive environment where it will become more apparent how musical, present and yet absent it can be. It is indeed an interesting process to listen to these voices correlating and overlapping as it can lead to a diversity of realisations depending on the listener.

Stoma is therefore a process of decontextualisation for both the text and the voice itself. It simply suggests how one should listen to a voice by paying attention to details other than its content and context. It is an intimate moment of accepting or even re-evaluating one's own voice. Voice is the personal sound image of oneself and Stoma is an open channel to everyone who wants to explore this idea.

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Trajectory


Photography: Kirsten

Trajectory is a project especially prepared for a sound art exhibition entitled Audio Forensics. The exhibition took place in IMT, a gallery located in Bethal Green, London, UK from the 27th till the 30th of November 2009. The idea around the project was to set up a networked performance where a roamer outside the exhibition space sent an audiostream inside the gallery space and jammed with the audience by sending text messages. The final piece would be an audio depiction of the space surrounding the gallery.

In more detail:

Trajectory is a 30 minute performance piece which explores the territories surrounding an interior. It focuses on the idea of using sound as a canvas on which the performer inscribes an itinerary of the visited areas. Phonographic sound, body – environment interaction and narrative, among other sources, construct the palette of a live transmission streamed back to the gallery space for example. The performer's exploration is also filtered and enhanced by the audience's participation using text messages instigating her/him for example to look for sounds, talk to people or take pictures. This dialogue between the transmitter and the receiver bridges the gap between the real, physical space of the performer and the imagined space streamed back in the gallery. The performance is completed when the wanderer enters the defined space and submits the gathered material.

Trajectory experiments with the notion of subjective encoding/decoding in the process of transmitting/receiving an experienced space and time. Alternatively to its wide use in broadcast and radio, in trajectory the same idea is placed in a more artistic context and it is used as a tool for a modern psychogeographic investigation and live phonographic documentation of an area.

Trajectory in Audio Forensics

There are three performances planned, one on each exhibition day at 3pm. On the 27th of November artist Manu Luksch will render her own version of the trajectory for the private view of the exhibition. The second guest performer is curator, radio producer and artist Richard Thomas who will be performing on the 28th and November. Peter Cusack will give a performance on the 29th of November, the final exhibition day.

About the Guest Artists

Manu Luksch: Through her films, telematic performances and interdisciplinary works, Manu Luksch explores her preoccupation with the effects of emerging technologies on: daily life, social relations, and urban and political structures. Particular zones of focus are the borders of public space, the weave of the urban fabric, surveillance and the gaze, security and identity systems.

Her recent film project, Faceless, is a science fiction fairy tale compiled from surveillance video footage recovered under the UK's Data Protection Act. The film treats CCTV images as 'legal readymades', and its scenario derives from the legal properties of the image.

Luksch has exhibited her work at venues and festivals internationally, including "Hors Pistes" (Centre Pompidou, Paris 2008), "Goodbye Privacy" (Ars Electronica, Linz 2007), "Connecting Worlds" (NTT ICC, Tokyo 2006), "Satellite of Love" (Witte de With, Rotterdam 2006). She served as production assistant to Peter Greenaway (1992/95), as artistic director of the Munich Media Lab from 1995 to 1997, curated Art Servers Unlimited, the first conference on internet art, in 1998, and, in 1999, founded interdisciplinary arts production company Ambient Information Systems. Luksch was born in Austria in 1970. She now lives and works in London with her partner and artistic collaborator Mukul Patel and her son Indigo.

Richard Thomas: Richard Thomas is an artist/curator/producer primarily working within broadcast media, most specifically radio. He is Content Manager and News Editor at Resonance 104.4FM and produces and presents an eclectic range of programmes for the station. Thomas writes film criticism and curates sound, music, film and performance events, and chaotic social situations. Recent teaching includes Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Thomas' personal practice combines these strands with visual and written material in his self styled explorations into 'The Psychedelic Dimensions Of Boredom

Peter Cusack: Based in London, he works as a sound artist, musician and environmental recordist with a special interest in acoustic ecology. Projects range from community arts to research into the role that sound plays in our sense of place. His project 'Sounds From Dangerous Places' examines the soundscapes of sites of major environmental damage. He produced 'Vermilion Sounds' - the environmental sound program - for ResonanceFM Radio, London. He lectures on 'Sound Arts & Design' at the London College of Communication and is a research fellow on the multidisciplinary EPSRC funded 'Positive Soundscapes Project'. CDs include 'Your Favourite London Sounds' (Resonance), 'Baikal Ice' (ReR), 'Favourite Sounds of Beijing' (Subjam).

Documentation:

  • Here is a link to a review of the exhibition with focus on Mark Wright's Quiet Reverie where Trajectory is described as intriguing and captivating:
    Performance Marks Blog
  • And here is Mark Shorey's documentary about the show.

    • The preparation for the project began in July 2008 with the research on different options and technologies to be used. In September/October and November I have done some test transmissions and experimented with different configurations on the Trajectory Kit hardware and software in order to achieve the best signal and sound quality. I have also done some test transmissions with my guest artists and I will upload some short clips here as soon as I edit them.

    Documentation clips of the performances:

    Peter Cusack (29th of November 2008)

    • Part 1


    • Part 2


    • Part 3



    Inside the Gallery (29th November 2008)

    *Video: Vytis Puronas


    Photogallery:

    Photography by: Kirsten, Apostolos Voulgarakis and Mark Peter Wright.

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    512:Personas

    512:Personas is a continuation of Amalgam but it places the concept of multiple personalities in the framework of public performance and audience interaction. 512:Personas was presented at the Supper Club, The Basement, Brighton, UK in November 2009.Below you can read the Synopsis for the Programme:

    Detour Collective presents 512:Personas, an interactive video installation that is inspired by the child’s game of “Mix and Match”. Set in a spontaneous and playful manner the spectator’s body image and movement are captured in real-time. Interaction with the digital bodies of the virtual gallery raises the question are we different depending on the circumstances and who is interacting with us?
    Interactive Video Artist: Caterini Dinopoulou
    Sound Composer: Maria Papadomanolaki
    Digital Performers: Marina Tsartsara, Alex Mannion-Jones, Pauline Smith, Stuart Davies, Anna-Carina Mullins, Luke Powell, Konstantinos Vaxalis
    Detour Collective co-founded in 2008 by the dance and visual artists Aliki Chiotaki, Marina Tsartsara and Caterini Dinopoulou.

    Postcards From Gowanus

    Postcards From Gowanus is a creative research program exploring a multitude of approaches to mapping the immediate vicinity surrounding Cabinet Magazine’s gallery space in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Drawing upon the psychogeographic tradition of critically and creatively engaging with public urban space, “Postcards from Gowanus” will examine the ways that mediation fundamentally alters our relationships to the environments in which we conduct our daily lives.

    Postcards From Gowanus is a project collaboratively organized by artists Penny Duff, Gabrielle Herbst and Maria Papadomanolaki as part of Cabinet's Interns Initiative Program.

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    Free Net Releases by www.voicesoundtext.com

    (click on the images to download)

    Dalot | ep 1 (2004)

    Dalot | ep 2 (2005)

    Dalot | ep 3 (2006)

    Maria P. | Amalgam (2006-2008)

    My Secret Demo | Shut App! EP(2004-2005)

    My Secret Demo | Demos Against Humanity (2005-2007)

    My Secret Demo | Dummy learns to dance (2007-2008)