i probably mentioned before Adam but I once got so very close to making a public art work with whale song. Humpback whales pass quite close to Brisbane on their annual migration - it ais an event that many goto nearby Stradbroke Island to watch.
Once we met up with some researchers there who were monitoring the songs by suspending bouys in the ocean and transmitting to song to a station on shore.
I suggested we transmit the song to the major walk bridge across the Brisbane river, so that when people walked into and out of the city across the water of the river, if a whale was also undertaking its migration along the waters of eastern Australia then the walker would hear that.
It took a lot of organsiaton, but I raised the money, got the government approvals in place, organised with an apartment owner that we could run the data feeds and so forth. But the approval processes took so long that the migration was finished. I tried to continue so that the next year we could run the project but the scientists were sick of it and pulled out. Very disappointing.
What was the approval that took so long? Mainly a person in the environment branch of the state government just sat on the project for months doing nothing - I had to then take over all the negotiations and exclude them before thngs started moving again.
It is a project I wish had happened.
Thanks for watching at the video Adam... in Budapest... it would be a dream but these things requires so many efforts.... i am working for it! Best, V.
At 1:07pm on September 29, 2009, Danny McMahan said…
No, actually completely different: in 'different ratios' the basic material is computer-generated, in 'hocket' I used plainsong, "Se la face ay pale", same tune as in Kyrie in Guillaume Dufay's Mass.
> Jukka, do you use exactly the same material in 'hocket' and in 'different ratios'?
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Once we met up with some researchers there who were monitoring the songs by suspending bouys in the ocean and transmitting to song to a station on shore.
I suggested we transmit the song to the major walk bridge across the Brisbane river, so that when people walked into and out of the city across the water of the river, if a whale was also undertaking its migration along the waters of eastern Australia then the walker would hear that.
It took a lot of organsiaton, but I raised the money, got the government approvals in place, organised with an apartment owner that we could run the data feeds and so forth. But the approval processes took so long that the migration was finished. I tried to continue so that the next year we could run the project but the scientists were sick of it and pulled out. Very disappointing.
What was the approval that took so long? Mainly a person in the environment branch of the state government just sat on the project for months doing nothing - I had to then take over all the negotiations and exclude them before thngs started moving again.
It is a project I wish had happened.
Noe
No, actually completely different: in 'different ratios' the basic material is computer-generated, in 'hocket' I used plainsong, "Se la face ay pale", same tune as in Kyrie in Guillaume Dufay's Mass.
> Jukka, do you use exactly the same material in 'hocket' and in 'different ratios'?
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