Kunstradio presents a live sound performance by Bernhard Loibner (Laptop + Midi-ctrl)
and João Castro Pinto (Laptop + Midi-ctrl): „Portraying the Spectra of Toys“.
Toys
for children and babies are developed and produced with the purpose to
perfectly meet the needs and the interests of their target group, for
playing but also for learning and apprehending. In each society toys
bear an interesting cultural significance as their development reveals
sociological, technological and cultural change and progress.
In a
world full of acoustic stimuli, toys are (often disapproved by parents)
yet another source of sounds such as beeping, speaking, singing,
barking, rattling etc. If you listen closely you will find that these
polluters of the acoustic environment in children’s play rooms
can reveal sound spectra full of surprises and fascination. Toys can
open up the door to a hidden world…
Bernhard Loibner and Joao
Castro Pinto dig into this seemingly irrelevant cloud of noise by
analysing the spectra of toys in their live „toy sonata“.
Recordings of sounds, voices, instruments and electronic toys are used
for the composition, as well as live processed and live manipulated
sounds. Far off the original meaning of the word, this “toy
sonata” tries to create interlaced and stringent sound textures,
contrasting timbres and rhythms, and play toys like you have probably
never heard them before.
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