this week’s framework:afield has been produced in the uk by felicity ford, and is a collection of thoughts and recordings exploring the idea of documenting sound art events. It features recordings created in summer, 2011 at the tuned city tallinn festival during the framework radio documentation and production workshop, which was run jointly by felicity and valeria merlini, and also recordings made by felicity at the audiograft festival in oxford in 2011. this is the first of a 2-part series exploring sonic documentation; the next edition has been jointly produced by felicity and valeria, and will feature recordings from this year’s audiograft festival. It’s hoped that this first show will set the scene for some of the documentary tactics which the pair have been developing in their work together over the past year.

http://www.sound-diaries.com
http://www.sonicartresearch.co.uk
http://phonopolis.wordpress.com
http://www.tunedcity.de

(details of utilised recordings)

  • Open Field (1980) by Pauline Oliveros (the score is read)
  • Heikou by Radu Malfatti, performed by the SET ensemble at the Concept as Score Concert, Audiograft 2011
  • Interviews with students at Oxford Brookes & David Grundy, who went to the Concept as Score Concert, Audiograft 2011
  • Rhodri Davis speaking about performing in For Rilke at the Concept as Score Concert, Audiograft 2011
  • For Rilke by Sarah Hughes, performed by the SET ensemble at the Concept as Score Concert, Audiograft 2011
  • For a drummer, fluxus version 2 by George Brecht, performed by Patrick Farmer
  • Geophone in the ground, recording by Shirley Pegna as research for her piece at Audiograft 2011, Ground Sound.
  • Valeria Merlini and Felicity Ford sounding the gates, the metal, the space around the Linahalle in Tallinn, Estonia, 2011
  • excerpt from the introductory session at the framework radio – documentation and production workshop in Tallinn, Estonia, 2011, where Felicity Ford demonstrates that the edirol recorder is recording
  • Sound Collage from Audiograft 2011 pre-event podcast, feat. Ray Lee, Shirley Pegna, Stephen Cornford, Mike Blow, Paul Dibley and Paul Whitty, and works by those practitioners, including Murmur by Ray Lee, Ground Sound by Shirley Pegna, Stephen Cornford’s old reel-to-reel cassette player, Shower Piece by Mike Blow and an electroacoustic composition by Paul Dibley
  • 3 words – a collage of interviews with artists and presenters at the Tuned City festival, Tallinn, Estonia. Recordings made by Kadi Pilt and compiled by the framework radio – documentation and production group
  • Polishing by George Brecht, performed by Patrick Farmer and Saragh Hughes at Audiograft 2011
    eBows placed inside a piano in the Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford Brookes University, by Paul Whitty during a performance at Audiograft 2011
  • Stephen Cornford playing the piano and performers dragging benches around the Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford Brookes University at Audiograft 2011
  • Sounds of Tallinn sound collage compiled during the framework radio – documentation and production group workshop at Tuned City, Tallinn, 2011
  • Derek Holzer introducing Tomas Ankersmit’s performance in the Linahalle at Tuned City, Tallinn, 2011
  • Tomas Ankersmit giving an acoustic tour of the Linahalle during the Tuned City Festival, Tallinn, 2011
  • Paul Whitty introducing the Concept as Score Concert at Audiograft 2011
  • Paper Piece by Benjamin Patterson, performed by Dominic Lash, Rhodri Davies, David Stent, Bruno Guastalla and Paul Whitty
  • Polishing by George Brecht, performed by Patrick Farmer and Saragh Hughes at Audiograft 2011
    The section from the short produced during the framework radio – documentation and production group workshop at Tuned City, Tallinn, 2011 where we mixed our field recordings of exploring the Cromatico sonically, as field-recordists, with our recordings of Tomas Ankersmit’s performance in that space
  • Max Eastley’s Aeolian Device, installed at Oxford Brookes University during Audiograft 2011
  • Max Eastley discussing the wind, Felicity Ford and Stephen Cornford contemplating/discovering the work
  • Orange Event Number 24 by Bengt af Klintberg, performed by the SET ensemble at the Concept as Score Concert, Audiograft 2011
  • Schlingen Blängen (organ performance) by Charlemagne Palestine, performed by Palestine at the Niguliste Church, Niguliste 3, Tallinn, 2011
  • Sound collage from the framework radio – documentation and production group workshop at Tuned City, Tallinn, 2011 which featured Charlemagne Palestine’s performance, in the context of many other works
  • Worker at Paterei Prison Fortress talking to us about our entry fee to the prison, then noticing our microphones and letting us go through to make our recordings
  • Echolocator by Aernoudt Jacobs, performed at Patarei Prison Fortress during the Tuned City Festival, Tallinn, 2011
  • Tomas Ankersmit giving an acoustic tour of the Linahalle during the Tuned City Festival, Tallinn, 2011
  • Schlingen Blängen (organ performance) by Charlemagne Palestine, performed by Palestine at the Niguliste Church, Niguliste 3, Tallinn, 2011
  • Shirley Pegna talking about her installation, Listening through Walls, at Audiograft 2011
  • The best coffee shop in Tallinn, recorded by Felicity Ford and Valeria Merlini
  • Paper Piece by Benjamin Patterson, performed by Dominic Lash, Rhodri Davies, David Stent, Bruno
  • Guastalla and Paul Whitty – discussion about score, then a recording of the performance in the concert
  • eBows placed inside a piano in the Richard Hamilton Building, Oxford Brookes University, by Paul Whitty during a performance at Audiograft 2011
  • Electro-acoustic Vocals performed at the Rotermann warehouse by Nisu-Rukkijahu Veski, with seagulls going wild, during the Tuned City Festival, Tallinn, 2011
  • Alouetta, performed by Felicity Ford and Pierre-Laurent Cassiere, and then deconstructed by Kadi Pilt, Felicity Ford and Pierre-Laurent Cassiere
patrick 2012, framework:afield

3 Replies

  1. I enjoyed the programme. I think Felicity Ford is very good at discussing worthwhile, complicated questions in everyday language. this is good because it allows one to understand the question well enough to think about it oneself. thanks!

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