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| “Soundprints:
Sealed in Sweden” is a radio piece by the Australian artist and
composer Colin Black. Commissioned by the Swedish Radio, its premiere
on radio was in August 2011 and it was released as a CD. Kunstradio
presents the piece as a “Listening Proposal” of the Ars
Acustica group within the European Broadcasting Union EBU. About the work “Soundprints: Sealed in Sweden” is structured from sonic snapshots and aural impressions from Sweden which are laced with sparse personal Swedish stories spoken in English and Swedish. While not representative of Swedish culture, this work does however give us a glimpse into the personal lives and viewpoints of the Swedish people who where interviewed while the artist was collecting material throughout Sweden for this work. Marja Gustin states, "There is the Swedish culture I guess that you show to other people and there is the Swedish culture that you take part in yourself ... ". Sonically the sound world of this new work is treated like that of a well composed photograph, where the perspective, proximity and timing is of the up-most importance. Much more than just a series of atmospheric recordings sourced from Sweden combined with language and musical composition, this new work explores sonic perspectives. Micro-sounds have been recorded at very close proximities, amplified and juxtaposed in the foreground against marco-soundscapes to form new sonic perspectives with a sense of hyper-depth. These sonic perspectives aim to reveal the "hidden" utterances within the Swedish soundscape. In conjunction with this sonic perspective, a deft consideration for the relationship between the audio elements’ spectrums has also been investigated. Din becomes texture while micro-sounds from the location are positioned carefully up against the listener's eardrum. In this sense the microphone is used like a zoom lens to examine these ever-present micro-sounds that are usually over looked and unheard." About the composer Internationally acclaimed composer/sound artist Colin Black won the prestigious Prix Italia Award (2003) in the category Best “Music Radio - Composed Work” for composing and producing his major work The Ears Outside My Listening Room, which BBC Radio 3 described this work as "a haunting evocation of Australia", while the Prix Italia Award’s International Jury Report states that it, "... lived up to the claim … that here was a patchwork sonic quilt that can be passed down the generations." In 2009 Black was commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur's Klangkunst to create a feature length radio art work from field recordings made in East Germany entitled Kilian's Antipodean Dream, which as a result of achieving final selection round status in the 2010 Prix Phonurgia Nova was scheduled for broadcast as part of the Semaine De La Creation Sonore (Week of Sound Creation) festival in France. Prior to this in 2008 Black was invited by Czech Radio’s rAdioCUSTICA program to create Soundprints: The Prague Pressings for broadcast and CD release. Black's sound installation Alien In The Landscape: The Extended Enviro-Guitar (XEG) was selected for the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2008 which was held at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music (Australia). In 2007 Black composed and produced a major musical/soundart hybrid work entitled Longing, Love & Loss for performance and broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation network. He also created the Butter Churn sound sculpture installation for the Wilsons River Experience Walk in Lismore's Heritage Park. While in 2006 Black was commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur's Klangkunst program to create a major radio art work entitled Alien In The Landscape. Credits: released 20 August 2011 Produced, Composed, Recorded and Mixed by Colin Black Interviewees: Marja Gustin, Nils Nutti, Peter Lunden, Linda iro Näsström, Mats Liljedahl, Stefan Lindbera and Stina Björkén Drums: Denis Charris Diaz All other instruments played and/or programmed by Colin Black Location recordings from Sweden, edited, compiled and mixed at Cydonian Sounds (Australia) by Colin Black Acknowledgements This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, it's arts funding and advisory body. |
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