Paivascapes #1

Paivascapes #1 Festival program is complete

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:48:43 +0000

Paivascapes #1 – River Paiva Sound Festival, a five-day celebration dedicated to the exploration of riverside landscapes and communities through sound and multimedia art, which is produced by Portuguese sound art organization Binaural/Nodar, has its program complete.

During Paivascapes #1 festival, to happen between March 4th to March 8th, 2011, twenty five artists will have their works shown or performed and six key speakers will participate in a series of conferences on creativity, rurality and environment.

List of participant artists:

Alicja Rogalska (PL), Anna Hints (EE), Charles Stankievech (CA), Craig Dongoski (US), Ignaz Schick (DE), Jez riley French (GB), John Grzinich (US), Katherine Liberovskaya (CA), Lasse-Marc Riek (DE), Luis Costa (PT), Maile Colbert (US), Manuela Barile (IT), Marc Behrens (DE), Marja-Liisa Plats (EE), Martin Clarke (GB), Masayo Kajimura (DE), o.blaat (JP), Patrick McGinley (US), Phill Niblock (US), Rui Costa (PT), Rui Silveira (PT), Sérgio Cruz (PT), Tiago Carvalho (PT), William Lamson (US), Yasuno Miyauchi (JP).

List of key speakers:

Tiago Monteiro-Henriques (PT), Sérgio Caetano (PT), Marcos Medalon (PT), Nuno Martins (PT), Domingos Cruz (PT), Tiago Carvalho (PT).

Masayo Kajimura & Yasuno Miyauchi: 3 Video Sequences for Hamon II

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:56:49 +0000

Following their April 2010 artist residency in the context of Paivascapes #1 project, Masayo Kajimura and Yasuno Miyauchi created an audiovisual piece using sounds and images collected along the river Paiva. The piece was premiered on May 24th, 2010 at Tokyo Wondersite Shibuya in the program “New Pioneers” and was performed by members of the NHK Symphony Orchestra. This piece was the first work created in the context of Paivascapes #1 to be publicly presented.

Craig Dongoski: River Contour

admin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:20:32 +0000

The American visual artist Craig Dongoski worked in his residence in July 2010 from the contour of the river Paiva, through successive iterations and expressive techniques, drawings, sounds from the river and the surrounding context, sounds from the contact of the pen with the paper, sound poetry etc. etc. Laterally, Craig recorded a short video where he used a rope attached to the video camera, which was made rotate. This experience eventually connected to the project’s concept, since the result was a kind of an additional (and unexpected) countour of river. After the residency, Craig joined additional audio to the video from some experiments he conducted while in Nodar.

Yasuno Miyauchi & Masayo Kajimura: Further developments

admin — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:53:12 +0000

After their residency in April 2010, Yasuno and Masayo met in Japan in June and they took the opportunity to further work on their project.

For the exhibition in Vila Nova de Paiva, they plan to hang an umbrella which functions as a screen and speakers placed upside down from the ceiling. It will be also filled with a bit of water.

Also, a small mobilé like construction, that holds the ice cubes will be hung from the ceiling as well and a video projector will be hung from the ceiling (if not, a mirror, which will reflect the video projection into the umbrella). A small freezer will be placed in the gallery space nearby our installation to produce ice cubes for the visitors to hang into the installation.

Here is a rough drawing of the installation:

And also some photos of the test Masayo and Yasuno made:

Anna Hints: Singing at Ermida do Paiva

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:46:25 +0000

The estonian Anna Hints participated in the Paivascapes # 1 cycle of artistic residencies last April 2010 with a kaleidoscopic art project made of numerous derivations based on meetings between the body, the voice, the genius of places along the river Paiva, personal memories and elements of the songbook and oral tradition of the artist’s region of origin.

Here’s a video snippet of Anna singing to a tomb located in the medieval church of Ermida do Paiva.

Lasse-Marc Riek and the Silence

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:57:38 +0000

Lasse-Marc Riek was part of the cycle of Paivascapes # 1 artist residences in late April and early May 2010. Part of the field work of this german sound artist consisted in recording silences in churches and chapels along the course of the Paiva river, corresponding to the section between Castro Daire and Nodar (the same section that the artist traveled on foot in the first stage of his residency). These recordings were a follow up of other churches’ recordings made by the artist in Germany and in other European countries.

Here is the list of churches and chapels and their geographic coordinates:

Saturday, May 1, 2010:

Church of Parada de Ester (Castro Daire): 40 ° 56 ’01.19 “, -8 ° 3′ 27.49″
Church of Ester (Castro Daire): 40 ° 54 ’58.11 “, -8 ° 1′ 34.28″
Church of Reriz (Castro Daire): 40 ° 54 ’13:51 “, -7 ° 59′ 32.81″
Chapel of Ribeira de Ester (Castro Daire): 40 ° 55 ’17.67 “, -8 ° 2′ 11:28″
Chapel of Nodar (S. Pedro do Sul): 40 ° 55 ’7.73 “, -8 ° 3′ 36.10″

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Chapel of Portela (Mões, Castro Daire): 40 ° 51 ’46.91 “, -7 ° 52′ 3:23 ‘
Church of Mões (Castro Daire): 40 ° 52 ’4.23 “, -7 ° 53′ 7.83″
Chapel of Folgosa (Castro Daire): 40 ° 53 ’40.99 “, -7 ° 53′ 50.81″
Church of Pinheiro (Castro Daire): 40 ° 55 ’15:56 “, -7 ° 58′ 39.31 ‘

Monday, May 3, 2010

Church of Castro Daire: 40 ° 53 ’49.44 “, -7 ° 56′ 6.34″

An audio excerpt of silence recorded at the Church of Parada de Ester (better if heard with headphones):
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Photo of the Ermida do Paiva by Lasse-Marc Riek. Interestingly this beautiful Romanesque chapel, located near Pinheiro, Castro Daire, ended up being the only one who could not be recorded due to a convoluted history with the local priest, which claimed a permit from the bishop in order to allow the access to the chapel, ending however not establishing any clear contact that could make the recording possible.

Fráguas: Goats crossing the main street

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:35:34 +0000

Before saying goodbye to the village of Fráguas, we still had time to record the sounds of a small herd of goats crossing the main street while their owner whistled and beat with his stick on the granite pavement.

Recorded bt Tiago Mota on May 20th, 2010 at 4.35 p.m. with an Edirol R-44 recorder and a Tellinga PRO 7 parabolic microphone.

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To download the sound, clickhere.

Fráguas: Youths dive into the Paiva

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 15:13:06 +0000

When the first group of field work ends their mission, we all decided to join the youths’ willingness to dive into the river with our intention to record a specific typology of summertime sounds, common in the Paiva river: the dives were accompanied by screams and laughs in which the innocence of a recently abandoned childhood and the enthusiasm of the recently discovered juvenile impulses where mixed together.

Recorded by Bianca Tavares on May 20th, 2010 at 4.13 p.m. with an Edirol R-44 recorder and a Tellinga PRO 7 parabolic microphone.

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To download the sound, click here.

Fráguas: Will it then go on television?

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:41:34 +0000

Already on the edge of Fráguas, we approached Ti Antonio who was harvesting hay on his field. In a speech marked by the years he asked the young woman who was recording if “it will then go on television?” and given a negative wave, he responded with a sincere and resigned “Oh shit!”.

Recorded by Vanessa Martins on May 20th, 2010 at 3.41 p.m. with an Edirol R-44 recorder and a Tellinga PRO 7 parabolic microphone.

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To download the sound, click here.

Fráguas: Turning the water and harvesting hay

admin — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:30:17 +0000

Arriving in the fields of Fráguas, we found a group of people who was turning the water from irrigation canals to their fields, while in the distance an old man was harvesting hay. Also, on the recorded conversation a resident asks where another woman is, yelling from her field.

Recorded by Tatiana Magalhães on May 20th, 2010 at 3.30 p.m. with an Edirol R-44 recorder and a Tellinga PRO 7 parabolic microphone.

(Please open the article to see the flash file or player.)

Download do som, aqui.