ANICHKOV`s BACKGROUND
2021
Roman Klaudo
The program “(Un)quiet movement” is an experimatla laboratory an acoustic flânerie aimed at listening to the sounds of the city, layers of sounds of different origins (anthropogenic, man-made, natural), listening to how they connect, manifest space and time, are replaced by silence (is there she?).
Sound Lab Curator Team: Daria Boldyreva (head), Marina Karpova (teacher, composer), Ulyana Tryapichkina (coordinator), Lisa Kukushkina (designer)
HISTORY of this route was born for me during our joint studies in the laboratory. I grew up in St. Petersburg and studied at the Anichkov Lyceum as a child. This is an important place for me, always quiet compared to the surrounding madness of the bubbling and roaring streets.
ROUTE consists of three parts - intro, middle part and outro, each zone has its own soundscape, different from each other. This is my story inside the city. Fontanka, as a water artery, is the beginning of the history of St. Petersburg; Anichkov Palace, as part of my history, inscribed between the past and the dynamic present, Nevsky Prospekt, which is symbolically viewed as a movement aimed at the future, loud and technological.
AUTHOR must certainly be present in every composition. All participants in the walk wear audio devices that add phantom noise to some channels and distort the frequency response to demonstrate how the author hears the world.
ALGORITHM for the sound walk is as follows: participants put on headphones that are connected to audio signal receivers. A wave generator is connected to the right channel of the recorder, and audio recordings of intervention noise are connected to the left channel. The balance will shift slightly towards the left channel. If possible, apply a filter for frequencies above 5 kHz for the right channel. The leader starts the recorder and all devices, and after that the group begins to move along the route following the leader. The result is a final mixed signal - the natural sound background of a given area, intervention noise and a simulation of the author’s phantom noise.
In this way, participants move along the route, listening approximately to the world as the author hears it. The duration of the walk is 10-12 minutes.
Personal part of collective arstistic project “Sound walks“ by (Un)quiet movement.
