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<H1>Vibrating Portraits</H1>
<DIV>a project by <A href="http://www.skyapnea.com/" target=_blank>Skyapnea</A>
/ <A href="http://www.nexsound.org/">Nexsound</A><BR>ns58 <BR><BR>Can we use
sounds to portrait someone? Can we paint using vibrating air to obtain a sound
that represents something? What if sound could be used to design features
belonging to other sensory spheres? Choosing a particular frequency could help
to evocate a thin nose? A granular light? The fragrance of morning after a
sunrise full of small rain? The taste of a coffee? <BR><BR>All these questions
were contained in a reflection about abstract music sent to nine sound artists
and they were asked to start from those question marks to reflect about the
possible uses of sound as a representative media. The result are some very
different sound portraits, from the biggest eruption of history captured in the
drones of italian composer Elio Martusciello(ReR Megacorp) to the processed
field recordings of the Mimerlaven mine in Norberg by the Nottingham based
Flotel(Expanding), from the free jazz tones of the audio picture of his father
in law by Autistici(12k,Kikapu) to the micro rhythms constructed on sounds
captured from a Lomo camera by Maps and Diagrams(PAUSE_2,Smallfish,Cactus
Island). The other artists who answered this unusual call are Lawrence English
(Room40,Quatermass,Baskaru,Cronica), Salvatore Borrelli aka (etre)(Baskaru), He
Can Jog(audiobulb,hippocamp), Gregg Kowalsky aka Ossobuco (Kranky, Nosordo) and
Motion (12k,Fat Cat) who all gently took part in this challenge.</DIV>
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