 |
|
 |
2009 _ 003 Urban Songline Latitude: 51.49858° N - 51.49487° N / Longitude: 0.02849° E - 0.03669° E - Gasworks, London, UK
Music created from the sounds surrounding the Thames Flood Barrier in East London. This 'Urban Songline' was then stored on a flash memory drive and set free in an airtight bottle on the river to be found in another time and place, retraceable by its engraved latitude and longitude coordinates.
The tradition of the Songlines, a system for navigation and caretaking of their land among Aboriginal Australians, translated to mapping urban space by creating music from its topography, discussing how we use and experience the public domain and to what degree we can claim ownership over it.
The Urban Songline is cut into vinyl and distributed for free amongst DJ's so they can use the records in sampling, re-distributing the co-ownership over this piece of public space.
-----------------------------
-----------------------------
Intrigued by the Voyager spacecrafts that were sent into deep space containing an array of arbitrary artifacts from our planet I wondered how to send music into time and space. I recorded the sound around the Thames Flood Barrier in East London, made them into an 'Urban Songline' and sent it off in an airtight bottle.
The music, saved on a flash drive / memory key, is inscribed with the exact latitude and longitude coordinates and was inserted into an watertight container and set off on the early morning of Friday the 18th of December of the year 2009. Whoever finds this object can play the song and enter the coordinates in Google Earth to find the satellite image of this place.
For more information on the residency please click here to visit the Gasworks website.
Urban Songlines Gasworks was realized with generous support from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
|
 |
|
| Click thumbs below to hear music and see images & video |
|
