A Backdrop for the Broken Hearted6/5/2017 I am so happy to receive this positive feedback from the owner of The Museum Of Broken Relationships where I recently completed a sound installation entitled A Backdrop for the Broken Hearted.
"I just wanted to thank you for the beautiful work you have created for the museum. It has filled the corners of the museum that I didn’t know they existed. It seems the visitors immerse into it with ease and are eager to share their impressions.” - Olinka Vištica So much thought when into this this work it almost broke me … For more information see https://brokenships.com/feed/metamorphosis-of-refracted-relationships-by-colin-black
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"Sonic Reflections" makes it to the final round selection at the 2016 Phonurgia Nova Awards11/9/2016 Colin Black's work Sonic Reflections (duration 51:30) has made it to the final round selection in this year’s Phonurgia Nova Awards and will be presented in Paris at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France on the 18th September. Other international finalists include Dinah Bird, Emmanuelle Gibello, Hannah Hartman, Dmitry Nikolaev, Oleg Makarov, Laurent Sellier, Phil Smith, Mark Vernon and Jenn Mattinson.
Phonurgia Nova awards program http://phonurgianova.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/09/11/retenez-vos-places/ For more information see http://bit.ly/2bSYDCu The London Ear Drops is a collection of works based on the specific location of London, where Australian sound artist Colin Black builds a multi-facetted aural geography in which human imprint is present. Constructed from audio recordings collected during Black's Visiting Research Fellowship with Goldsmiths, University of London and artist residency with Resonance104.4fm (London), this new collection explores notions of interiority through personal thoughts and the inner aspects of place that can be uncovered within exterior sonic environments The London Ear Drops is currently featured on the on ABC RN Creative Audio Unit, Soundproof website at http://ab.co/2a2Wbbu Download The London Ear Drops album from the artist's Bandcamp page at
https://colinblack.bandcamp.com/album/the-london-ear-drops Sliced and Diced Kunstradio – Radiokunst, live broadcast, Österreich 1 (Ö1) - ÖRF, 19 June 2016 http://www.kunstradio.at/2016A/19_06_16en.html Duration 51:40 Composed and Performed by Colin Black For more information see Music Compostions, Sonic Art & Radio Art Works
World premiere broadcast of Colin Black's new major work entitled "Sonic Reflections" (duration 51:30) nationally in Germany over the Deutschlandradio Kultur network and internationally via their online stream, 6 May 2016 (12:05am UTC +2, Berlin time)!
ABOUT THE WORK Sonic Reflections: a history of sound art on the radio in the form of a sound composition. How do you write a history of radiophonic sound art? To answer this question, radio artist Colin Black has travelled the world for five years ... on the way he has (almost) interviewed all the protagonists of the genre: artists, writers, theorists. Their stories and thoughts Black counterpoint with sounds of his journey. The result is a piece of radio art about radio art. ---- Listen to the work on air in Germany on Deutschlandradio Kultur, 6 May 2016, 12:05am. Listen in online http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/ursendung-sonic-reflections.1022.de.html?dram%3Aarticle_id=347850 6 May 2016 Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Ljubljana, Stockholm etc. 12:05am Athens 1:05am Perth (Australia) 6:05am Sydney 8:05am 5 May 2016 Los Angeles 3:05pm New York 6:05pm London 11:05pm For more information see, http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/ursendung-sonic-reflections.1022.de.html?dram:article_id=347850 To coincide with the return of the Vikings TV series in Australia on SBS (Wednesday 8:30pm, 24 February), I am offering a 95% discount on my album Soundprints: Sealed In Sweden.
To buy the album, go to https://colinblack.bandcamp.com/album/soundprints-sealed-in-sweden click on “Buy Now” then type in the word Vikings as the discount code. You have until 9:30pm (Sydney time) on Wednesday, 24 February (when the first Vikings episode finishes) to take advantage of this special offer! Soundprints: Sealed in Sweden has been selected for broadcast in its entirety on the following list of stations: * WDR 3 (Germany), 16 November 2012. * HRT Croatian Radio 3, 5 June 2012. * Kunstradio, Austrian public radio ÖRF, 27 May 2012. * RadiaLx 2012 International Radio Art Festival, Lisbon, Portugal * RTP (Rádio e Televisão de Portugal), Dois ao Quadrado programme, 12 December 2011. * YLE Radio 1 (National Finnish Radio), 31 October 2011. * ABC Classic FM (Australia), 27 August 2011 * Sveriges Radio (National Swedish Radio), 24 and 25 August 2011. * Radio Clásica, Radio Nacional de España (Spanish Public Radio), 21 August 2011. * Resonance104.4fm (London), 8 July 2011. Soundprints: Sealed in Sweden is a fifty-one minute work in twelve movements that, while it contains documentary aspects, has more in common with Peter Leonhard Braun’s recordings of London from 1964 entitled Londoner Abend [London Evening] “an account which is primarily sensuous and only secondarily factual.”[1] Soundprints: Sealed in Sweden is a work that utilises Hans Flesch’s notion of radio as a “harmony of noises”[2] comprised of “interview”, “new music” and “studio”. Like Braun’s Londoner Abend it also aims “to make noise the star performer”[3] alongside the interviewee’s voices. The work develops along Donald McWhinnie’s aesthetic preference for favouring more carefully selected abstracted “radiophonic” sound effects and away from using realistic sound effects (including recognizable location recordings).[4] Further to this, these radiophonic sound effects are not simply used chiefly to illustrate and support the dialogue, but are conceived as independent elements within the work’s construction. In many movements these elements present poetic juxtapositions of the audio components so as to create a kind of polyphony between the parts. The aim, in a post-structuralist sense, is to give the listeners space in which to conjure up their own idiosyncratic connections. This is an approach that I have been developing for some time now [see my contribution in Seán Street, The Poetry of Radio: The Colour of Sound (London: Routledge, 2012), 117]. -------- For those of you who may be interested, you can now download my full notes on the making of, the ideas behind the work and the transcript of my album “Soundprints: Sealed In Sweden” from the following URL https://www.dropbox.com/s/jhcxvrycpnk19pd/Soundprints%20Sealed%20in%20Sweden.pdf?dl=0 [1] Peter Leonhard Braun, “Prix Italia 1966: Londoner Abend/London Evening,” in: ARD Prix Italia Transcripts (Radio documentary) (Germany, 1966), Text introducing the transcript. [2] Hans Flesch, “Mien Bekenntnis zum Rundfunk,” trans. Daniel Gilfillan, in Daniel Gilfillan, Pieces of Sound. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009), 70. “um durch den Zusammenklang der Geräusche eine rundfunkeigentümliche Kunstgattung anzudeuten” [3] Peter Leonhard Braun, “Prix Italia 1966: Londoner Abend/London Evening,” in: ARD Prix Italia Transcripts (Radio documentary) (Germany, 1966), Text introducing the transcript. [4] Donald McWhinnie, The Art of Radio (Faber and Faber: London, 1959), 51 Black diffused his major work Kilian’s Antipodean Dream over a octophonic system at the Phonos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) gig in Barcelona on Tuesday night, 14 May 2013 at 7:30pm For more information see http://phonos.upf.edu/node/705?language=en
Black’s paper “Exploring The Interface Between Acoustic Environments and Culture Through Arts Based Research” was selected for inclusion at the Sound Diaries Symposium in Oxford (UK)
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