More from the road
It is currently 20:15 here... somewhere between Salzburg and Wien. Dorsey, Sean and I just had a lovely dinner (sorta) onboard the train from Zurich. It's dark now, but the ride through the alps today was tremendous. There's a few photos, which I'll post soon, along with the others from the past few days.
Last night we had a very traditional and fun dinner with Germán. We ate the traditional dish of Zurich, Rösti, which basically was fried potatoes with smelly (but very good) cheese. The boys had meat on theirs and I had egg. Very good for a day of hard work or skiing.... neither of which we could claim. We then walked the cobbelstone streets, past the infamous Cabaret Voltaire, home of the dada movement, and finally winded up somewhere for a late night tea.
Hugo Ball at Cabaret Voltaire
This morning, Marcus Maeder, a curator at ICST and sound artist, picked us up at the hotel to escort us to a fantastic sound art exhibit: Milieux Sonores. www.walcheturm.ch.
The exhibit featured diverse sound art works and was completely built from scratch... meaning, that they built their own rooms and hallways within a gallery space. This created a very effective and immersive environment.
Here's info about one of the pieces that I particularly liked:
Rob van Rijswijk, Jeroen Strijbos- Soundspots
Images from: http://www.catalystarts.org.uk/index.php?mact=Calendar,cntnt01,default,0&cntnt01event_id=50&cntnt01display=event&cntnt01lang=en_GB&cntnt01detailpage=73&cntnt01return_id=51&cntnt01returnid=73
The listener must position himself underneath one of the Soundspots. On this spot he hears music coming from the traditional speakers. These sounds mingle with the music coming from the Soundspots, consequently resulting in a polyphonic texture of timbres. The listener can influence this polyphonic result by moving through the spatial environment or by positioning himself underneath one of the other Soundspots.
Here's photos of this piece.. not how we experienced it though. For the space in Zurich, the artist created an almost completely pitch-black room. There were tiny dimly-lit bulbs hanging above each of the 6 semi-domes to illuminate them and partially illuminate the red carpet spots beneath them. The effect was wonderful - both visually and sonically. Moving around in ths dark space between the various spots was also tons of fun.. essentially mixing your own track of music, as Marcus put it.
More photos from our camera coming soon...
Last night we had a very traditional and fun dinner with Germán. We ate the traditional dish of Zurich, Rösti, which basically was fried potatoes with smelly (but very good) cheese. The boys had meat on theirs and I had egg. Very good for a day of hard work or skiing.... neither of which we could claim. We then walked the cobbelstone streets, past the infamous Cabaret Voltaire, home of the dada movement, and finally winded up somewhere for a late night tea.
Hugo Ball at Cabaret Voltaire
This morning, Marcus Maeder, a curator at ICST and sound artist, picked us up at the hotel to escort us to a fantastic sound art exhibit: Milieux Sonores. www.walcheturm.ch.
The exhibit featured diverse sound art works and was completely built from scratch... meaning, that they built their own rooms and hallways within a gallery space. This created a very effective and immersive environment.
Here's info about one of the pieces that I particularly liked:
Rob van Rijswijk, Jeroen Strijbos- Soundspots
Images from: http://www.catalystarts.org.uk/index.php?mact=Calendar,cntnt01,default,0&cntnt01event_id=50&cntnt01display=event&cntnt01lang=en_GB&cntnt01detailpage=73&cntnt01return_id=51&cntnt01returnid=73
The listener must position himself underneath one of the Soundspots. On this spot he hears music coming from the traditional speakers. These sounds mingle with the music coming from the Soundspots, consequently resulting in a polyphonic texture of timbres. The listener can influence this polyphonic result by moving through the spatial environment or by positioning himself underneath one of the other Soundspots.
Here's photos of this piece.. not how we experienced it though. For the space in Zurich, the artist created an almost completely pitch-black room. There were tiny dimly-lit bulbs hanging above each of the 6 semi-domes to illuminate them and partially illuminate the red carpet spots beneath them. The effect was wonderful - both visually and sonically. Moving around in ths dark space between the various spots was also tons of fun.. essentially mixing your own track of music, as Marcus put it.
More photos from our camera coming soon...
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