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Zones
- An Audiology of the River Clyde, Glasgow,
Scotland 1999
Tramway@Sea
Commissioned
by: Tramway
Contemporary Artspace as one of their
series of off-site 'Tramway@' commissions.
Project
Brief / Context: An open brief to create
a new piece of work in a non-gallery context
in relation to the city of Glasgow
Project Description: 10
x 40mins. audio boat trips along the River
Clyde over two days. In this work the river
becomes a metaphorical space on which to
base a series of inter-connected narratives
and soundscapes.Passengers wore headphones
which relayed a specially composed soundtrack,
produced by Glasgow-based musician/composer
Twenty-First Century Troy, featuring compositions
of ambient sounds, archive sounds, live
telecommunication 'grabs' and sounds recorded
from the immediate environment. This work
is a continuation of the artist's interest
in constructing meaning from aspects of
a journey, and revealing human interactions
within the public realm. The environment
of the River Clyde was chosen as a site
for this work due to its significance within
the city's industrial past, and how this
contrasts with its current under-used state,
and its imagined fuure as a base for telecommunication
industries. The end of 1999 seems a suitable
time to contemplate the shifts in social
and technological structures, and to draw
out the unheard, the unseen and the over-imagined.
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Neil Mulholland
wrote at the time about zones........"
zones
literally
upsets the passenger's sense of stability
and place.On the other hand zones
connects people through biological microelectro-mechanical
devices and a tangle of wires, melting
them into a sonic singularity. Rolling
on the river, time and space are elasticized
, as zones
occupies and fills heads with a complete,
intimate experience. Uniting digital and
analogue communication technologies, this
emphasis's the ways in which information
is communicated and stored and the effect
this has on our understanding and experience
of space and time......, zonesprovides
audio souvenirs of the mythical heroic
period of a river uncorrupted by the banality
of digital technology that drives today's
service industries."
This area demands more investigation so
expect
zones at
a river near you!
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