Sound Without Walls workshop
" We have split the sound from the maker of the sound. Sounds have been torn from their natural sockets and given an amplified and independent existence. " (R. Murray Schafer, "schizophonia", 1977)
Sound Without Walls was a five day workshop held at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki that looked at sound art and music in the 20th century as a way of exploring public, built and imagined spaces.
Through listening sessions and practice-based work between art and music students from ten different countries, we explored how sound could be given the « independant existence » R. Murray Schafer evoked.
Our aim was to produce a series of site specific compositions using field recordings in undiscovered areas of the school.
With its long oppressive corridors filled with oversized objects, lockers, plastic plants and photocopiers, free space in which to install ourselves comfortably, let alone a crowd and a couple of speakers seemed hard to find.
And so these very restrictions, these uncomfortable awkward areas - a bathroom, a door leading to a back staircase, a wooden trolley used for transporting heavy material, the inside of a piano, the length of a corridor, and the top of a bookshelf, became the set and inspiration for new listening spaces.
For more information and to hear the audio works click on the images below.
