„AUDIOMOBILE Bad Radkersburg“
by Matt Smith
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presents a radio version of Smith’s and Wintners mobile sound
installation, which toured the Austrian town Bad Radkersburg and its
environs from 26th November to 3rd December 2009.
AUDIOMOBILE invites you to explore “Sonic Maps” while driving around in a comfortable vehicle that encourages dialogue between a random assortment of passengers and that is equipped with a multi-channel audio system and GPS positioning system. As various urban scenes pass by, GPS coordinates allocated to the vehicle’s current geographic position trigger audio files: retrieved from an archive of sound clips, looped ambient sounds, and narrative elements created by six artists, this creates a constantly changing soundscape that becomes audible in the passenger area. The position of the vehicle in the city not only determines the selection of sounds but also the direction (loudspeakers) from which the sounds reach the passengers’ ears. This creates the impression that the sounds emanate from very specific points in the urban scenery and grow louder or quieter depending on the vehicle’s distance to the mapped areas.     This production in Bad Radkersburg (in the framework of the project „Social Sound Systems“, curated by Andrea Sodomka) is the 6th incarnation of AUDIOMOBILE since 2004. Previous appearances werde in Saskatoon, Linz, Winnipeg, Quebec City and Vienna.
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