[phonography] call for phonographers in europe

after discussions with others list members and
agreements for a webspace to archive the results,
i am ready to make a preliminary call and proposal
for a direct phonographic action on the guillemins tgv
station in liege, belgium.

background on the site can be read at the heading
"Architecture & Silence"

http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound/category/feed/

the action(s) consist in recordists arriving at the
station to do their thing. discussion of an exact
timing of the recordings are still open to
individuals' input. the idea is to keep all recordings
an equal length and then to archive them so that at
the site of the archive the listener is able to mix
these together simultaneously or listen discreetly.
although each recordist can add their name on the
project as contributor, each individual phonography
should not be tagged on the site. the objective here
is to take a spectral phonographic reading of the
site: different time periods, different people,
different gear. all approaches should be included
except those not adhering to the agreed upon duration
or which are clearly not phonographies dedicated to
capturing some aspect of this particular site.

the long term scope of the project will eventually
involve sound installations at various points in the
city itself. but this call for phonographers is the
first stage. the objective, at this poiny, is to
deconstruct the objective, unitary, formalist and
visual aspect of the station into aural experiences.
we could call this process a preliminary
devisualization or decomposition.

the first step is to hear the station from multiple
perspectives. the website will renewably re-integrate
these perspectives offering different resultants to
different ears that cannot get to the site themselves
but also construct data resources for ongoing
analysis.

what i call a renewable spectral mix of the
recordings---one that can be experienced not only as
individual time-lined phonographies discreetly is
intended as macrostructure with a view to a historical
and pluralistic particulars.

i offer this partly as my own engagement with my new
living environment but also as a new way to engage
others working in the phonography field, moving in the
direction of a different kind of focused
participational phonography and to build a situation
where reflection upon the results for one site can be
ongoing. the practical apsect of this is related to
the fact that the TGV station is projected as visual
spectacle and this visuality will lead to the
destruction of the surrounding neighborhoods. there is
time however to offer an aural disposition, a
phonographic intervention on the issue before that
happens.

we are seeking support for various levels of the
action but of course the most important is that
phonographers put their own aural prostheses to the
rails as it were.

let me know what you think of all of this.
and if you can, reply to me via

trans.abelard@gmail.com

if you'd like a quicker response from me.

regards,

jeff gburek

j.ff gbk

http://www.futurevessel.com/orphansound

http://www.idiosyncratics.net/netlabel.html

http://www.con-v.org/online.html

http://www.djalma.com

http://www.mattin.org/desetxea.html