“Decomposing Landscape: Hearing the Troubled Site” presented by Chattopadhyay

Symposium:

• ISEA2017: 23rd International Symposium on Electronic Art
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• Media Art, Landscape and Heritage

• Decomposing Landscape: Hearing the Troubled Site

• Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

Venue(s):

• University of Caldas, Caldas, Colombia

• Keywords: Sound Art, Media Production, Landscape, Heritage, Ambience, Sitespecificity, ambient sound, Artistic Transformation, Mediation

  Site-specific sound artworks are developed through location based listening and recordings made at specific places with a particular cultural heritage. The compositional strategy in these works relies on artistic intervention by intricate processes of field recording and processing of recognizable environmental sounds using multi-channel spatialization techniques. The artistic transformation renders these sounds into a blurry area between compositional abstraction and portrayal of their site-based narrative. The question is: how much spatial information is retained and how much abstraction is deployed in these works? In this proposed paper presentation, I discuss my recent multi-channel sound work: Decomposing Landscape (2015) to shed light on the specific approaches and the methodology of handling site-specific evidence in sound art production dealing with environmentally troubled heritage sites in India.

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