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08.10.25
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RADIO MONTMARTRE #119 : LUDOVIC SAUVAGE & FIONA VILMER

Le mercredi 8 octobre à 18:00 en direct sur *Duuu Radio depuis l’atelier 119 de la Cité Montmartre aux Artistes. Autour des Zones Fictionnelles, animé par Antonio Contador, avec Ludovic Sauvage, Fiona Vilmer, Ji-min Park et Lucas Charrier.

Radio Montmartre est un cycle de performances radiophoniques réalisé en direct depuis les ateliers d’artistes de la cité Montmartre Aux Artistes dans le 18e arrondissement à Paris. Diffusée chaque trimestre sur *Duuu, Radio Montmartre est préparée et animée par l’artiste Antonio Contador. Les émissions sont guidées par le concept de micro-ouvert autour d’une table, où sont débattues les thématiques qui font l’actualité du monde de l’art contemporain. Des intervalles musicaux et performatifs viennent ponctuer les discussions des invité·es, artistes et commissaires d’exposition.

Ce projet est soutenu par la Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian – Délégation en France, qui l’a cofinancé dans le cadre du programme EXPOSITIONS GULBENKIAN pour soutenir l’art portugais au sein des institutions artistiques françaises.️ Avec le soutien de la mairie du 18e, Paris.

Enregistrement : Sampson Staples

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21.04.16
Acoustic Field Tests #1
Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson
07'47"
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21.04.16
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Eugene Binder reading articulation and intelligibility tests inside the artillery shed holding ‘100 untitled works in mill aluminum’ (1982-1986) by Donald Judd, Marfa, Texas.
By Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson

The ultimate fate of sound energy is to be converted into heat. In traveling through the air, sound waves progress by an oscillation or quivering of the air that sets up a friction between neighboring air particles.
Acoustic Field Tests are articulation and intelligibility tests which give an estimation of the intelligibility of speech in a given space. It follows a protocol for an experimental procedure which documents the absorption and reflection of sound by materials.

A series of words, chosen because they contain vowels and consonants that are commonly used in the English language, is to be read in a space. Each word contains a sound chosen to be graded. The observer must recognize the test sound in order to understand the word. The sentences, each including three tests words, are questions that were never meant to be answered, only to be transmitted and witnessed by an observer. [1]
There are two general modes of sound recording: phonographic, preserving perceptual fidelity and telephonic, favoring intelligibility.
In July of 2015 we made recordings of these acoustic field tests for articulation and intelligibility in one of artist Donald Judd’s studios, one of the artillery sheds containing 52 of the 100 works in milled aluminum, and in 15 works in concrete situated on the Chinati land parcel in Marfa, Texas.
Just as Judd was creating specific objects avoiding any superfluous craftsmanship, we aimed to make a recording ‘faithful’ or specific to the sites. The microphone acted as a physically real observer; the recording maintains a representational coherence, albeit non-human. In cinematic terms, the sound is recorded in medium and wide shot, with no close up, maintaining a spacial signature.

This work is ongoing, and new recordings and live performances will be added in the future.
Audio recording and live performance, 2015.

1. Watson, F. R., Acoustics of Buildings. Third Edition, March, 1948.pgs. 100-107.

Une emission proposée par Melissa Dubbin et Aaron S. Davidson

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