Starting from both the permanent change
of site-specific acoustic experiences and the possibilities
of satellite-supported technology for navigation – GPS
(Global Positioning System) – the two Canada-based
media artists Matt Smith and Sandra
Wintner developed the
project Audiomobile. In the form of a mobile sound installation
in a car Audiomobile invites the public to participate
in an unusual discovery tour of Vienna’s urban landscape
Various street scenarios and urban zones were given their
own individual soundtracks. Inside the car the passengers
could experience a multi-channel sound installation via
six loudspeakers. While different urban scenarios were
passing by, the GPS- coordinates of the momentary position
of the Audiomobile were retrieved in real time. These data
triggered audio files that could be heard inside the car.
The car’s position in the urban space not only defined
which sounds were selected but also the direction from
which the passengers heard the sounds. This gave the impression
that the sounds, noises and voices emanated from predetermined
positions in the urban environment with their volume rising
and falling according to the car’s distance from
a given area mapped by GPS. While the sounds of the urban
space were seemingly intruding from outside, the car was
moving on as if through an artificial soundscape, quasi
as a sonic counter representation of Vienna. Thus a discrete
soundtrack, a parallel audiovisual experience – and
not merely a synchronous acoustic image of the outside
world – came into being inside the car.
The collaboration with media artists who are really acquainted
with each city where the project is realized is a main
aspect of Audiomobile. Artist working in the most different
fields
of art contributed audio samples which they had partly
produced specially for the project. These audio samples,
sound clips,
looped ambient sounds and / or narrative elements were
mixed into a permanently changing palette of sounds. Twelve
artists
and groups of artists living in Vienna and coming from
the fields of visual arts and literature, music and media
art
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Bad Beuys, Colophony
Circuit, dieb 13, Michaela Falkner, Oliver Hangl/Matthias
Kertal/Richard Eigner, Caroline Hofer/Jens Döring,
Rupert Huber, Volkmar Klien, Christina Nemec, Martin Pichlmaier,
Billy Roisz and thilges 3.
Audiomobile started with a short presentation on Oct
4, 2005 and was available for drives through Vienna from
Wed, Oct
5 to Tue, Oct 11, 2005. Moreover, on Sunday Oct 9, 2005 at
11.05 pm Matt Smith mixed a live radio version of Automobile
in a studio at the Vienna Funkhaus. This was also broadcast
in the Dolby Digital 5.1 format via OE1DD. The project was
concluded with a performance featuring all participating
artists in the frame of the MAK NITE© on Oct 11, 2005
at 8 pm, which took place in the peristyle of the MAK (Austrian
Museum for Applied Arts / Contemporary Art).
As of Oct 11, 2005 the series of spontaneous literary
interventions by the writer Michaela Falkner, which had
started in April
2005, was resumed. With “MANIFEST 5“ Michaela
Falkner accompanied the MAK NITE© Audiomobile with more
interventions from her text performance series “Notate
von einer die gerade angefangen aus der Bahn zu rasen“,
which she had specially produced for the MAK NITE©. bk
transl. ol
Audiomobile times of departure
On Site:
Oct 5 - 10, 2005: 10, 11, 12 am & 6, 7, 8 pm r
Oct 11, 2005: 8, 9, 10, 11 pm
Meeting point: MAK Vienna, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna, entrance
On Air:
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1 Kunstradio live – also in 5.1 via OE1DD / Sun, Oct
9, 2005, 11.05 pm
On Line:
http://kunstradio.at
www.MAK.at/MAKNITE
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