[spectre] DRIFT update: BOX 30/70 by O+A

[Chris Byrne]

DRIFT Radio: BOX 30/70 by O+A
21 - 27 March

Urban soundscapes produced using a length of pipe and a shipping 
container to 'tune' the sounds of each location. Artists O+A (Bruce 
Odland & Sam Auinger) placed their tuning device in European cities 
including Witten, Rotterdam, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Dresden and Vienna. 
Here they present recordings from their sound installation at a number 
of sites, plus compositions created from the sounds produced through 
this method at different sites, including Los Angeles and the Rocky 
Mountains.

BOX 30/70 is a portable audio camera obscura which visits, observes, 
transforms, and stores the soundscapes of European cities. It humanizes 
the harsh reality of the urban soundscape with a harmonic version of 
reality. As transformed by Odland and Auinger, extraneous noises that 
would normally be found disturbing acquire a basic harmonic character. 
By 'tuning' a site in this way, the composers subtly re-orchestrate the 
sonics of the city as a whole. At the same time, the altered sounds 
enter into a dialogue with the specific resonances of the urban space, 
placing its architectural and social character in an unaccustomed 
light.

To listen to the stream, visit the DRIFT website at 
http://www.mediascot.org/drift

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