iRemember(it will be)
An exploration of memory; layers of environmental sounds (children, birds, the sea) and half-recollected ambiences and music from the past interweave with more ambiguous sounds (digital clocks or medical machines?) and meanings (what sort of 'stroke' is being spoken about?). And are the sounds we hear actuality recordings, or simulations ...?
Old Guildhall School of Music
During the mid 1970s the researcher travelled weekly for music tuition to the old Guildhall School of Music in London’s John Carpenter Street. The building was a microcosmic acoustic environment, uniquely its own. It has left forever memories of a building alive with the diverse, echoic sounds of rehearsal: from the human voice to the tuba. Of a building that seemed to ooze the sound of music layered through its history from its very walls. Of a friendly, ageing, echoing building that had been devoted to learning the performance of music from its construction as a dedicated building in 1886. To stand in the corridors of the building was to hear combinations of sounds and enthusiasm and frustration, each unique to a particular moment in time. This work attempts to capture a sense of what this building once meant ...
Old Guildhall School of Music
Unlike the previous version of this piece, this composition randomises the audio selection each time it is viewed, altering the experience of the piece.
Old Guildhall School of Music (interactive)
This version of the Guildhall composition enables the user to choose which sounds to start and stop, and when to do so.
NOTE: FOR SOME REASON, AT PRESENT THIS COMPOSITION ONLY WORKS IN INTERNET EXPLORER ...