We started in 2016 with sound pieces using field recordings in podcasts for a Bucharest sound ecology: the exploration/recording/transformation/transmission of urban intimate memories. Older pieces here, do just that! Newer sound submissions though, make us want to leave the city and the documentary, get lost in illusion/fiction/drama, based just as well in field recording: forms that stimulate stories that transmit that listening state. Of course, it’s just radio, our only medium to theorize and practice listening for space & story, remotely!
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Letea Harp. From the Wind Notes
Letea Harp. From the Wind Notes Author: Michal Kindernay, 2019 The sound image of the rural surroundings of Letea. Very still and hot days of late June were followed by a sudden strong wind and the sound of the landscape took form of protracted noisy tunes, where the sound of the whole fauna and village life was drown out. Listen closely the wind whistles in the trees and hidden overtones of wind in the strings between the fences. Sound composition created during the SONIC FUTURE RESIDENCIES organized by Asociația Jumătatea plină and SEMI SILENT in Letea Village, Tulcea County, Romania in June-July 2019. Michal Kindernay is an intermedia and sound artist, curator, performer and lecturer. His audio-visual installations interconnect art, technology and science. He reflects ecological issues through various technological approaches in relation to nature environment. His works include video performances, interactive installations or experimental documentary projects or sound compositions. He is one of the founders or yo-yo nonprofit culture organization, RurArtMap project and he was part of Školská 28 gallery collective in Prague. As organizer or artist he was involved in many international projects. He works and lives in Prague. www.yo-yo-yo.org/mk.html Recording, editing and mixing by Michal Kindernay for SEMI SILENT.