Inventions For Radio #16. Mitchell Akiyama: ‘Impossible Inaudible / Inaudible Impossible’.
Fourteen pieces that, by various means, render perceptible that phenomena that are inaudible to humans.
1. Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville – Au Claire de la Lune (sonified by the First Sounds Project)
2. Toshimaru Nakamura – nimb #1
3. Peter Cusack – Dawn Chorus, Chernobyl Town
4. Davide Tidone – A Balloon for Linz
5. Somatic Sounds – Iraq Body Count
6. Stephen Vitiello – Untitled
7. Jacob Kirkegaard – Auditorium
8. Cheryl E. Leonard – Tenaya Lake, January 13, in the morning
9. Charles Stankievech – Mobius Fields
10. Christina Kubisch – Magnetic Flights
11. Aurchinaut – Junction Sonifications / 1025-1028_8thAve-34th-112210
12. Alvin Lucier – Music for Solo Performer
13. Mitchell Akiyama – Phantasmgoria in the Practice of Everyday Life
14. Raymond Cass – Raudive 2
1. The world’s oldest sound recording. Ghosts extracted from the furrows etched into a smoked glass plate, the exhumation of a spirit 150 years old.
2. No input mixing board; the ghost in the machine speaks.
3. Field recording of a zone of trauma. Do the ghosts of devastation speak? Detecting the spectral presence of radioactivity in the soundscape.
4. Balloons popped under varying conditions of architecture.
5. Sonified data and the war on apathy.
6. The 91st floor of the World Trade Center, 1999. Contact microphones capturing the ghost of the future.
7. Chernobyl, an abandoned auditorium room tone.
8. A quiet, ear-splitting abstract principle.
9. Sound walking into infinity; from field recording to the sonification of magnetic fields and back.
10. The inaudible electromagnetic pulse of modernity.
11. The sound of data mobilized against apathy.
12. Remote brain doing; EEG’s and the poetics of volition.
13. Harmonic explosions that are yours to keep.
14. Ghosts speak, the machine listens.
Mitchell Akiyama is componist, kunstenaar en academicus afkomstig uit Toronto. Hij bracht meer dan tien albums uit op labels als Raster Noton, Sub Rosa, en Alien8 naast zijn werk op zijn eigen label, Intr.version Records. Hij componeerde en droeg muziek bij aan verschillende films, trad op verschillende plekken in Europa, Japan, Australie en Noord Amerika op in concertpodia, clubs, galleries, bunkers en festivals inclusief Sonar, Mutek, en Send + Receive.
Akiyama’s vragen in zijn kunst gaan over kennis over de zintuigen en perceptie.
http://www.mitchellakiyama.com/
