<![CDATA[Borderbend Arts Collective - 3 to 7 for World Listening Day]]>

<![CDATA[Borderbend Arts Collective - 3 to 7 for World Listening Day]]>Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:23:53 -0700Weebly<![CDATA["Could Hear Them All at It" by Veronica Tonkin]]>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:12:16 GMThttp://www.borderbend.org/3-to-7-for-world-listening-day/could-hear-them-all-at-it

8:56 pm

Olympic National Park, Washington, 3rd Beach Headlands

Ayaviri, Puno, Perú Cathedral Bells

Shush. Hear that? Oh sorry, did I startle you? Didn't mean to make you jump; you must be more frightened by noise than light. Or is it you thought you were alone on this beach? Oh my darling, no no. I'm right here. Here in the tree. Haven't you ever listened to a tree? I'm waiting for them to turn me into a pillar so Isis can find me. You know her? She knows you. We've been listening to you, haven't you heard us? Listen around you. All the world is listening. Shh. Better sit still. Use your eyes if you must but it's only getting darker so you might as well listen up. There. You hear me? That's my Ba flying about. Listen.

Castlecomer Discovery Centre, Kilkenny, Ireland

My Ba. My face, my bat body. Like a little man in a cloak I am with tiny hands. Teeth instead of a beak. Bells have scared my Ba out of me, well that and my death played a part. Don't look so startled, my Ba will come back once Isis tears me out of this tree. I'll live again, metempsychosis you understand, repetition. You hear that repetition? Patterns it is, numbers too if you care to hear them. Self similarity of sound, clustering like bats in a belfry. You hear that? Repetitions are forming relationships. There. Proportion. Now we have something. Consonance and dissonance and assonance and resonance. All in fluxing proportions. Bells, and Ba, and waves, and what is that? Oh that's you! Breathing, yes I miss that already. And that other sound? What is that?

]]><![CDATA["Aporee 1: Dunkerque Port" by Jen Besemer]]>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:03:18 GMThttp://www.borderbend.org/3-to-7-for-world-listening-day/aporee-1-dunkerque-port

mystery audio device [2]

speak with emphasis. these suggestions tend to increase the heat, the speed, the density. echo across the water, bouncing ball and well.

floating dock

everybody, everybody get! everybody get, get up and! scrape your sand into a bucket. it's time to get, get up and light show! pound a mirror-ball into your heart. walk to the water with your metal tail in your hand. get up and! it's time to get, everybody and! dance!

helipad

everybody to the left. port breath, a meal of waves. my life with seagul corn, with ventilator. o my quietude, o my hands and timing.

do not wait for something to happen. go into the sea. it's two o'clock. the leaving train and the mate of the grass. the space.

rain

slow head spark. batten down breathing in brisk bursts. the tumble of science and its twin. was your sand upset?

based on sounds recorded by Fotoralf

]]><![CDATA[3 to 7 for World Listening Day]]>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:02:29 GMThttp://www.borderbend.org/3-to-7-for-world-listening-day/3-to-7-for-world-listening-day

The Borderbend Arts Collective is inviting artists to participate in “Three to Seven for World Listening Day.” Here are the guidelines:

Pick three to seven field recordings. Those field recordings could have been recorded in one location or in different locations (such as different continents).
Create an artwork that uses those 3-7 field recordings in some way. The artistic contribution could be a piece of writing (poem, short story, prose poem, or other literary form), visual art (painting, collage, etc.) or a work in another art form.
Send your artwork, with links to those three to seven field recordings, to Borderbend via email. Submissions should be sent by July 31, 2012.

Contributions will appear at http://www.borderbend.org/3-to-7-for-world-listening-day.html.

World Listening Day

World Listening Day happens annually on July 18th—the birthdate of R. Murray Schafer, a Canadian composer who established the World Soundscape Project. Its research laid the foundations for what became known as Soundscape Studies and Acoustic Ecology.

The purposes of World Listening Day are:

to celebrate different ways we can focus on our soundscape (sonic environment);
to raise awareness about the acoustic ecology movement, including ideas regarding how noise pollution can be reduced; and
to introduce new educational initiatives and community events related to listening and acoustic ecology.

Participation in the 2012 World Listening Day focuses on the aforementioned goals, which could include listening parties, listening to one’s soundscape in private, private or public soundwalks, public forums about acoustic ecology, and more.

links

more links (for field recordings)