photo by Leonie Lomann & Davide Tidoni
This exhibition focuses on the intimate relationship between “inside” and “outside” as sound passes across and through adjacent spaces.
Developed as a site-specific work in an empty apartment, the exhibition features multiple installations which emphasize the acoustic relationships and ‘dialogues’ between different rooms, a balcony and a courtyard. There are microphones transmitting both environmental and contact sounds from one space into another; loudspeakers also play back recordings of slow-walks that have previously been performed in the space.
This work is intended to produce a sense of presence, communication, and interrelation, ideally resulting in a contemplative orientation towards the site. The otherwise vacant state of the apartment combined with the low playback volumes requires focus and attention, inviting viewers to linger and observe.
Only one person was allowed to view the exhibition at a time.
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keyword - sound-space
OUTWARD FROM WITHIN
OBSTRUCTIONS
A loudspeaker diffusing white noise is installed on the side of a road. When a car drives on the road, it intersects the projection of white noise generating cuts in the propagation of sound.
ATTACK / DECAY
Attack/Decay is a night walk where participants are invited to explore the acoustics of specific locations by means of a custom built impulse generator device.
The acoustic qualities and the spatial features of the chosen locations serve as a point of departure for developing site related listening pieces.
Through direct experience, the walk introduces participants to primary acoustic principles and spatial listening, framed as a state of interference and interdependency with the propagation of sound in space.
Technical development by Airborne Instruments.
With the support of nadine – laboratory for contemporary arts and the VGC.
UP IN THE VALLEY
Up In The Valley is a self organised workshop led by Davide Tidoni that took place in Valle Sabbia (Brescia, Italy) from 2013 to 2019. The workshop consists of a series of listening exercises and performances specifically designed for mountain locations. Activities are presented as part of different walking excursions and explore acoustic principles such as propagation of sound over long distance, directionality and movement of sound, reflection, and the threshold of audibility. See logistics and documentation images from previous editions.
TOUCH OF THE POPS
Audio release with text and graphics.
The work documents a series of directly experienced balloon pops.
Each pop was performed using a balloon and a location.
All locations were encountered separately by chance and chosen for
their unique acoustic response.
The recordings presented in the book are intended to document the
action of popping, its situatedness, immediacy, and physicality.
recordings & mixing: Davide Tidoni
design: Davide Tidoni
silkscreen: l’Appât
hand-binded leporello with folded cover: SongYi Han
pages: 16
dimensions: 110×150x6mm
publisher: Balloon&Needle
number of copies: 50
year: 2018
orders: write to baitabaita AT riseup DOT net
EXAGGERATED FOOTSTEPS
design: Davide Tidoni
material: stainless steel
dimensions: 120×40x4mm
weight: 700 gr.
embossed printing: l’Appât
packaging: Tatsuya Inuikawa
number of copies: 50
year: 2018
orders: baitabaita AT riseup DOT net
EXAGGERATED FOOTSTEPS
In the video I activate the different acoustics of an empty building by means of a pair of metal plates attached to my shoes.
IN THE BLINK OF AN EAR
In the video I activate the acoustics of an empty factory by hitting the wall with a stick. To visually emphasize the sound of the hit, I adopt the association: silence=black / sound=light.
A VOICE WANDERS IN DISPERSION AROUND THE CITY
In the video, I use my voice as a strategy that allows me to survive in a city where I feel like a stranger. Led by the acoustics of the places I encounter in my wandering, I end up silent in an empty building. My voice has the double function of making me discovering the acoustic response of the places I find, and sustaining my own presence already undermined by the clash with the metropolis.
A BALLOON FOR LINZ
A Balloon for Linz brings to light the acoustic response of specific locations in Linz. Together with the video, a series of exploratory walks were organized in the city of Linz. Participants were invited to pop balloons and listen to the acoustic architecture of the urban space. The project received an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2011.