Robert Curgenven
04 aprile dalle ore 21.30: Casa Morigi, via Morigi 8, Milano__www.casamorigi.org
Border è...
The point of intersection and demarcation between adjacent yet contrasting territories, scenarios and ontologies. It is a living thing, a lived thing, a barrier to survival and sometimes too a source of life – the thing that divides one from another, separating but also informing, be it by presence, difference or the need for tolerance of this Other and their contingent diversity. A physical entity, an emotional state, a psychological barrier or a social fact: borders control, regulate and shape our lives but our lives need not be defined by them – in some cases an obstacle that serves as a reminder to make us grow stronger and see more clearly what it is that is on our side of the fence.
Progetto
Through the use of sound in a live context I engage audiences not only with the space of the performance but also their own physicality.
Using modulating harmonic frequencies that respond to the body and also to the architecture of the performance space, I create and combine sounds that make it clear to people that they are in a room or space where they are surrounded by air and that there are physical borders and parameters in (this) space, both specifically and generally. Using custom and everyday items as oscillators (from ventilators, turntables, microphones and amplifiers) and also field recordings that come from remote areas in Australia - which posit these spaces and the conditions for living in them as extreme by being beyond all borders of European nature and culture - my performances explore space, territory and human engagement with landscape and inner space (be it mental or architectural). Sometimes charting a traversal of ancient songlines across Australia through sound and these recordings of “space”,
http://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=196
http://www.experimentalmusicaustralia.net/directory/sounds/curgenven_silentland.mp3
at other times employing abstract strategies to render obvious the fragilities of our present mode of existence - from the edge of silence to a gradual coaxing of the audience toward different places be they emotional, mental or physical
http://vimeo.com/2614329
Contrast and difference, be it a slow change or a sudden punctuation, are also useful tools in the deployment of sound with regard to an exploration of borders – and in conjunction with movement and dance, a foil is presented both for sound and audience to reflect on the human condition and the body with respect to the physical, psychological and social aspects of these engagements.
The extensive use of harmonics within the performance and their interruption through contrasting sections aims to create an encompassing and near-totalising environment of sound and physical presence (filling the space with sound rather than volume) – becoming a discrete and durational ontology of its own. The harmonics of time, the harmonics of space and also the interrogation of concepts of territory and deterritorialisation (both from a sonic and philosophical perspective) are key elements to my work and research.
(My practice orginates from classical training in organ from an early age as well as studies culminating in a Bachelor degree in Philosophy (1997)).
Further examples, CDs and DVD are available upon request.
Atività/curriculum
Working with harmonics and textures as articulated not only through instruments/objects, in space and place, but also in time and the dislocation of the remote, Curgenven’s sound explores shifting layers in the fabric of fields of perception, creating vast landscapes from carefully detailed recordings through to immersive resonances via deft manipulations of sound pressure. Employing only analogue means, in a variety of contexts from pure field recordings to feedback and instrumental harmonics to shape relations through sound, his work interweaves the unfolding of complex beauty and the quiet brutality of nature in all of its forms.
He has lived for much of the past eight years in Australia's Northern Territory, working in small towns and remote locations in working across cultures in radio, health and the arts. Since the beginning of 2008 he has relocated to Europe, based in Berlin and Milan.
Projects:
transparence – performance with RF007 dubplate, custom oscillators, room resonances & fieldrecs
silent landscapes (pure field recordings) studio and multichannel performance
air+electricity – audiovisual performance with Katrin Bethge (DE) overhead projections
duo with Helena Gough (UK/DE laptop)
sound atlas series (field recordings, site specific)
improvised performance + dance projects (various)
soundtracks & sound/sculptural installations
Discography
2009 - V/A – Compost & Height First Birthday CD
2008 - RF007 “Transparence” [Limited Edition] dubplate/vinyl, Recorded Fields
2008 - RF006 “air+electricity” [Limited Edition] – Recorded Fields
2008 – V/A - Tape Projects Locked Groove LP
2008 - RF004 “Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney” w/ AnA Wojak [Field Rec. Series Vol 2] Rec. Fields
2008 - RF002 “Silent Landscapes” [Field Rec. Series Vol 1] - Recorded Fields
2007 - V/A – CRISAP/Gruenrekorder “Autumn Leaves/Sound and the Environment“ web project
2007 - V/A – Sounds Unusual Festival Artists Compilation - Sounds Unusual NT Festival of New Music
2007 - RF001 “Alice Springs, Central Australia” w/ Chris Howden [Sound Atlas Series Vol 1] R.Fields
2007 - “Improvisations: Feb-Apr 2007” w/ Derek Holzer, Umatic
2006 - V/A – “Recorded in the Field by….” – Gruenrekorder
2005 - “Terrain der Zeit” (dir) Leszek Paul (soundtrack)
2005 - “cichaczem”, privatelektro
forthcoming :
2009 – Subtract (48k) – split 3” CD w/Jez Riley French – Compost & Height
2009 – RF003 ”Central Victoria” w/Tara Gilbee [Sound Atlas Series Vol 2] Recorded Fields
www.recordedfields.net
www.myspace.com/recordedfieldslabel
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