Tag: public space
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Henri Lefebvre: Audio ressources on the Web
Interview, 56’41” 1975-10-02 – Henri LEFEBVRE, sociologue : pourquoi il se définit comme “méta-philosophe”, le concept de mondialité ; ses origines, ses parents, ses rapports avec ses étudiants (allusion à Daniel COHN-BENDIT). Son activité d’opposant au sein du PCF pendant 10 ans, son exclusion du PCF, ce qu’il pense de Herbert MARCUSE, ce qu’il pense…
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Ceci n’est pas une pub. This is not a commercial.
This qr code links to a recording of a street improvisation by ordinary passers by, facilitated by Akutsk, using the Anthropomorfer. Sound graffiti you may call it, I use the name fonografiti. When using a qr code, we embark on the colonisation of the still rather virginal web based virtual track of the street. Although…
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Bikestruments, bridgestruments, anti padlock guerilla
Related articles Spelling out the invisible social wall (akutsk.wordpress.com) Help I’m a bike, curate me ! Giantophone (akutsk.wordpress.com) Lefebvre’s Spatial Vision of Revolution (pathtothepossible.wordpress.com) Brandalism, An Anti-Billboard Guerilla Art Campaign in the UK (laughingsquid.com)
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Help I’m a bike. Curate me !
So it’s official. I’ve often wondered what I should call what I’m doing. Well. It’s art. I’ve found out that my participation in a sound art project at the Knippels Bridge (a bridge connecting main Copenhagen with the island of Amager), is in fact part of Copenhagen art festival 2012. Being a part of a…
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Building streetstruments: paint-bucket-bass, drain-trombone and sewer-chimes
First workshop: constructing streetstruments _ _ _ Second workshop: Collective improvisations on electrified streetstruments After the workshops: The streetstruments are left in their street, inspiring passers by to make their own street improvisations Related posts: Construction site interacts musically with neighbors Quotation: Lefebvre about the living disorder of the street The street sound activist’s toolkit
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The street sound activist’s toolkit
The fundamental reason why I work with these “street interventions”, using the Anthropomorpher as a tool for inviting passers by in the street to make collective improvisations on the street’s sounds, is because I want to ignite a trend where people start making sound art as street art. There is no official name for this,…
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Spelling out the invisible social wall
Owing to the curious lay-out of the town it is quite possible for someone to live for years in Manchester and to travel daily to and from his work without ever seeing a working-class quarter or coming into contact with an artisan. He who visits Manchester simply on business or for pleasure need never see…
Building Sound Collectives 