<div dir="ltr"><p><br>this end of summer and some of the events of the past few months inspired me to create a simple (but hopefully interesting) work that intends to bring together the aspects of architecture + sound and spaces that are part of our environment. I collected a large sample of field recording and then selected some of the most representative to create the following tracks, which you can hear on <a href="http://www.myspace.com/massissam">www.myspace.com/massissam</a> I have also taken a few pictures of each location where the sounds have been recorded and added them to the page as well.</p>
<div>Following is a description of each track. </div>
<div>[on myspace you need to raise the volume as the tracks are designed for headphone listening and the volume is intentionally low]</div>
<p>This is a bit of trip in some very fines locations in the world, so enjoy it...</p>
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<div>"private island" explores the combination of day and night sounds in<br>open spaces. It was recorded in my garden in Toronto (day)and outside my<br>house in Northern Italy (night). Sound travels freely with no boundaries.<br>
The listener can hear both far away and close by sounds and their humming<br>interaction with the open landscapes. </div>
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<div>"city of angels" is a reflection of life in Bangkok. A city that counts<br>close to 15 million people. A city where spaces and sounds offer a wide<br>array of samples. The track explores the contrast between sound in a very <br>
close space (the elevator in my apartment building) and a semiopen space <br>(a small temple on one of Bangkok busiest streets). Despite the opennes </div>
<div>of the temple's architecture once inside the temple it is hard to hear the </div>
<div>noisy street nearby. </div>
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<div><br>man made infrastructures interact with mother nature in "acqua". The<br>idea is to experience how infrastructure (buidings and bridges in this case) <br>alter natural sounds. The quiteness of NY streets late at night, rain pouring<br>
on a steel bridge in Japan and a sample from BBC program recorded from<br>my hotel TV one night in Kyoto are mixed together. This track also intend<br>to alert the listener to the importance of water and the struggle that<br>
some countries face when it comes to drinkable water. </div>
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<div>a combination of high speed, compression, design and the effect of<br>inside-outside that travellers experience while on a train is the basis<br>for "kaisoku-bahn". A deliberate word-play to symbolize the <br>
mixing of sound recorded while travelling on the Narita Express train </div>
<div>from Tokyo Airport to Tokyo station and the ICE train from Frankfurt </div>
<div>to Heidelberg in Germany. </div>
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<div><br>"noise in the machine" is designed to help the lister explore another type of <br>space. The virtual space we inhabit every day through the use of computers, </div>
<div>phones and other electronics designed to connect people. Sounds have been </div>
<div>recorded from websites and from a computer farm, where a large number of </div>
<div>computers are housed. <br>Virtual spaces emit sounds that interact with the real space of the listener and </div>
<div>provide another sample of soundcapes that our hears and mind percieve. </div>
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<p>The sounds to the extent possible have not been treated or altered. They have been processed through a sampler (NN-XT Advanced Sampler) and with a equalizer (MClass). In one or two cases I added some basic reverb. </p>
<div><br>I hope you enjoy the presentation and I would be glad for any comment you may want to leav on myspace</div>
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