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"aN eMPTY sPACE? -
songtales for a public site".
Jakob Draminsky Højmark at the
7th festival of Pocket Opera in Barcelona -
November 3rd and 4th 2000.
Teatre Malic and Centre de Cultura Contemporania de
Barcelona ( CCCB), present together with MultiSounds, November
3rd and 4th the most recent version of Danish soundartist
Jakob Draminsky Højmark's installation opera "aN eMPTY
sPACE? - songtales for a public site".
"aN eMPTY sPACE?" is
an 8 channel sonic environment based on one of the latest
computer realtime sound manipulation tools: MAX/MSP.
A total of 250 multi-tongue
voice files, composed and recorded as part of a long artistic
process centered on concepts of de- and reconstruction makes up
the sounds source for this abstract, epic experience.
"aN eMPTY sPACE?" was
originally concieved for
Nikolaj, Center of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen and presented
in two versions: one stationary in the Tower Gallery of Nikolaj
and a second mobile one, mounted at 14 public sites in and
around Copenhagen in May 2000.
 "aN
eMPTY sPACE?" will also be audible in two versions at
the CCCB.
From 12:00 - 14:00 and from
16:00 - 18:00 a stationery version like the one in Nikolaj will
be sounding at the courtyard of CCCB and from 19:00 to 20:00 a
completly new version commisioned by Festival d'Opera de Butxaca
2000 (The Pocket Opera Festival) will be presented.
This new version - v.3 - makes
use of extreme digital sound manipulation of the original
recorded material to create a soundscape in which a live opera
singer appears.
The live voice is performed in
Spanish by Danish singer Christine Schøtt while the composer
controls the computer keyboard and the mouse......
Entrance is free. |
