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Live Stage: Hearing Sirens at DAW 2007 [ch Zurich]

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sireninsnow1.jpgHearing Sirens :: June 11; 1-2:00 pm :: Digital Arts Weeks 2007, Zurich.

Hearing Sirens is an ongoing performance project for portable horn loudspeakers. The work of Cathy Van Eck, Hearing Sirens is based on two of the applications of the word siren. The siren is both a mythological woman, having the body of a bird and the head of a woman as a noise maker, used to warn in emergency cases. The sirens as bird-women were known in Antiquity for their beautiful singing. It was unable to resist them and most of the men who heard them did not survive. The siren as a noisemaker is used to warn people for emergency cases and can therefore be seen as a survival tool. It uses a rotating disk with holes, to create its characteristic sound. Cathy uses both as an acoustic, visual and conceptual starting-point for this piece.

For this project Van Eck built so called portable loudspeakerhorns, consisting of a small mp3-player, a box with an amplifier and battery, and two loudspeakers in two big yellow horns. The construction is made to be worn on the back of a dancer or performer. The sounds used in the piece have been made with a physical modelling of the sound of an emergency siren, programmed in Max-MSP.


Jul 10, 2007
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