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30/04/2012
LOS-HEL.
Lately I've spent a lot of time in Lagos, sound-wise that is, studying and listening to various soundscapes recorded by the Nigerian sound artist Emeka Ogboh, and turning them into compositions for this project that we're working on together.
Lagos is amazing: very soon you forget that you're listening to "just" a recording of a city, and you're drawn into these audio dramas, complex ecologies (symphonies) made of unintentional sounds, the very experience of being alive in sound even.
A lot of the intentional music feels stale in comparison after that. (I have similar recordings made in Tokyo and London but those feel just like soundscapes of a city after all - nothing more). "Listening to the world in a musical way" as John Cage put it is worth doing once in a while, it seems.
Ilpo Jauhiainen (sound artist/composer)
>>more on the project
30/04/2012
LOS-HEL.
Lately I've spent a lot of time in Lagos, sound-wise that is, studying and listening to various soundscapes recorded by the Nigerian sound artist Emeka Ogboh, and turning them into compositions for this project that we're working on together.
Lagos is amazing: very soon you forget that you're listening to "just" a recording of a city, and you're drawn into these audio dramas, complex ecologies (symphonies) made of unintentional sounds, the very experience of being alive in sound even.
A lot of the intentional music feels stale in comparison after that. (I have similar recordings made in Tokyo and London but those feel just like soundscapes of a city after all - nothing more). "Listening to the world in a musical way" as John Cage put it is worth doing once in a while, it seems.
Ilpo Jauhiainen (sound artist/composer)
>>more on the project