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ceph, Purpurniy Dyadya, Sergei Komarov & Lidiia Griaznova, Nikita Bugaev, the concept horse
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Phenomenon and Paradoxes of Information Transmission 6’06”
The need to receive, process, and send signals as quickly and efficiently as possible opened a distinct field of knowledge in telecommunication technologies.
It opened new ways to apply both scientific and artistic imagination—through the inventions themselves (telephony, signal processing, radio transmission, and speech synthesis), through the contexts in which they were used (number stations, ham radio, vocoders, and various speech-coding systems), and through the people and institutions who worked with them. The sonic landscape was formed by work of all fascinated and driven by this way to work with sound — from The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Bell Labs, NHK Japan, to the 1970s “sound-phreak” culture—particularly Evan Doorbell. To trace way through the lines of circuitry to create sounds out of the chaos, as pointed out Justin Patrick Moore, a radio enthusiast and writer.
Within a sound installation commissioned by CYLAND MediaArtLab, artists contributed their own sonic environments as reflections on the evolving trajectory of sound and music-making. Each artist was provided with a set of autonomous, battery-powered speaker modules designed and built in the CYLAND workshop. Each channel functions as a stand-alone piece and simultaneously as part of a collective multi-channel work. One could listen to a single artist’s group of speakers or combine them with others, rearranging the units in space and shaping new sound combinations in real time. This constantly changing acoustic environment blended with the Botanical Garden’s regular sounds, revealing shifting relationships between signal, interference, and spatial perception.
text: Lidiia Griaznova
curated by Sergei Komarov and Lidiia Griaznova
recording: Sergei Komarov and Sergei Dmitriev
mastering, lathe cut: Sergei Dmitriev
