Sound Installation

The sound installation I have been trying to work out, is going to be shown at the University of Arts in Davies st, during EXHIBIT 08.

This project is based on the idea of creating an artificial sound environment made from sounds that I would have recorded. I mean artificial, because the sounds would be broadcasted over loudspeakers in a space that might have nothing to do with the place where they were recorded. The idea is also about creating a paradoxal or even impossible (sound wise) situation, by broadcasting specific sounds from an outdoor space in a closed room, or for example, sounds from an urban scene and sounds from the forest overlapped...

Read more about it later...

Hailstorm

Trying to give a meaning, a sonic identity to images.
Expressing through sound the dynamic aspect and the movements suggested by the images of the hailstorm, as well as exploring the paradox of this situation suggested by my position, being simultaneously static, watching the frame and playing, improvising on these images trying to make them speak.

In these sessions of improvisations, looking through the window, looking at an image, or at a screen is a source of inspiration and playing on an instrument simultaneously allows me to communicate, describe a situation, tell a story, create dialogs or a musical language...

video and sound © copyright by Barbara Lambert 2008

Dark Lights

Looking "through the window" is a reference to italian renaissance paintings, where in the background of portraits, a window frame was painted, opening the scene to a landscape, giving depth to the initial work.

As one of my favorite "passe-temps", it is a theme I like to develop in music, staring at the outside world, and apprehending it through a frame, listening and re-imagining a musical landscape, repositioning myself through a certain aesthetic point of view.
The idea of creating a situation from different elements, images and sounds, remains as a dialectic exercise in my work and adding sounds to images gives the same depth as a background landscape in a portrait.
This approach leads me to explore paradoxes, dissonances, curious disharmonies, oxymoronic situations and suggestions.

video and sound © copyright by Barbara Lambert 2008

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