People who use sound as their medium for artistic expression, and even more those that deal with concrete/recorded sound, tend to focus their efforts in capturing the perfect recording. They equip themselves with Hi-Fi equipment (recorders, microphones and editors), try to record with clarity and precision avoiding at the same time all possible unwanted artefacts like handling noise or wind distortion. During phonographic work, there will always be such artefacts that later on, during the editing process of the file, are being discarded.
Recently I was going through my environmental recordings for the project Forest in a Forest (Exhibition and installation in collaboration with photographer Naama Kostiner, April 2010 - Israel) and realised that huge amounts of audio had been thrown in the trash. I took some time to listen carefully to these Unwanted Things and observed that from an acousmatic point of view they were actually very interesting. Weird textures, amplitude differences and spectral variations danced in my ears as I was listening more and more to these trashed audio files. The more I was listening, the more I was forgetting their nature and source thus I was focusing on their quality and started treating them in my head as potential materials to be used for creative sound practice.
I decided then to go deeper into the subject and by using the time and resources provided to me during my residency in Krems, I intend to conduct a practice based research on which I will try and create an artwork using these unwanted materials.
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