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SOUND OF CITIES
RTV 808 have started the new Radio & TV show “Sound Of Cities“ with Gia Dajana & Henry Stag, which resulted from the interactive project of the same name & will be launched simultaneously with the Radio show. The project app and the interface will be available at soundofcities.com
Broadcasting has begun on April 3. 2022. and a one-hour show on our channel will be broadcast every Sunday at 9 p.m. In addition to the radio show we will broadcast every first Sunday of the month and the accompanying TV Show, which will contain rare recordings and interviews with the most famous world composers and performers of modern music.
The aim of this show is not only to show and connect European as well as world cities and artists into one cultural whole.Of course, the art scene itself does not know borders, but the beauty is to show this connection to both European and world audience.
SOUND OF CITIES / A GLOBAL VISION
The project, which officially launched in May 2007, originally targeted the establishment of an interactive network of projects in the cities worldwide. The official start of global connection between the citiesis set for Autumn 2022.
The essence of the project is to involve a broad palette of talented electronic music artists, emerging visual and multimedia artists, while building a significant network of hosting galleries and industry buildings. Moreover, for each of the cities the project will set out to establish at least one edifice or a gallery as the point of input. The edifice is electronically equipped to act as a huge microphone which is recording the vibrations of the surrounding environment. This data will be continuously monitored, recorded and digitally archived, because the project should also be viewed as a musical historical document.
Hence the cities, or better said, the Earth is playing the music and the artists are composing its form, Visitors to the site can in turn choose to create their own variation of the score, thus allowing him or her to become a director / conductor wlthin this “terrestrial symphony“. At the same time the project should be viewed as a “musical historical document“.
Subsequently, each of the participation galleries will further be equipped with the hardware necessary for visitors to access the digital archive on the server to allow him / her to interactlvely connect to the project and compose their own compositions. From a musical stand point, the goal of the project is to bring the younger generation from the electronic music scene (Cllck‘n Cut, Dance, Modern Electronic Music etc.) together with the pioneers of electronicmusic.
In this time of the rapid developments in communication technology, we are witnessing the expanding merger between musical and visual arts. This project will not only allow tor the creation of such a merger, but will aid in documenting its progression, both trom historical and artlstic vantage point.
Please take a look at the next page and see : How it works ?
1. The edifice will be electronically equipped to act as a huge microphone which will record the vibrations of the surrounding environment. This data will be continuously monitored, recorded and digitally archived. Through the selection of various frequencies the recorded data can filter out the seismic events occurring in the immediate surroundings. These events could occur in the interior or exterior of the edifice but subsequently represent the sounds coming tram the “bowels“ or heart of the city.
2. This audio stream can then be directly transmitted to the server or to the mixer for the interactive manipulation and listening pleasure of the user.
3. The digital recordings of these seismic events are transferred directly to a midi data file tor archival retrieval at any point in time. Simultaneously, the data can be transmitted to the artists via a so-called midi stream.
4. The artist is then free to creatively manipulate the audio data with the use of the provided synthesizer
or program sampler.
FROM THE PRESS:
DER PULS DER STÄDTE / A Global Vision: Initiator Henry Stag explains the approach this way: „All cities, or rather, the entire earth,play the music. the artists are giving it their shape and colour, and the visitor can do the same thing as the artists, but can also be a conductor of this terrestrial symphony.“ A round concept: ... „Sound of Cities“ will be not only an ambitious art project. In the framework it offers a number of activities like a network of music shops where the moneys are going directly to the artists themselves, a series of electronic concerts, own label, magazine, movies presentations, festivals and more. Thus, on 14 September, the famous scene in the band Cluster (Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius) in Berlin occur exactly one month later by Soft Machine. (Beat Magazine / Berlin)
Launched on December 14th 2007, Sound of Cities is the magnum opus of Henry Stag (who is more of a charismatic doyen than evil genius, although I have my suspicions) - working in co-operation with some of the biggest names in music production software, including Magix, Applied Acoustic Systems, Arturia and MAX MSP. Close enough from the infamous Checkpoint Charlie crossing point on Friedrichstrasse to kick a cabbage to is the Magix Multimedia Gallery, an exhibition space run by the Berlin-based software production company of the same name. Inside is a computer terminal, permanently connected to the pipe bomb, running a series of VST instruments, which receives impulses from the device and then converts them through a WIDI interface into MIDI signals. The first presets at the Berlin gallery were configured by Joachim Irmler from Krautrock pioneers Faust, Dieter Moebius from Cluster, Markus Detmar from Klangwart and John Weizierl from Amon Duul 2. The whole project is not only going to be hosted in the Berlin gallery, but also broadcast live online at sound of cities webpage. (Bearded Magazine / London)
For the past few decades, Henry has collaborated with the greatest living icons of Modern Music such as Paulo C. Chagas, Oscar Wiggli, Francois Bayle, Ivo Malec, Silvio Foretić, Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Irmler, Daevid Allen and many others. (See pix in the gallery below.)
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