No rasto daqueles que coleccionam os sons do mundo !

Em 2011, ao deixarem Lisboa no dia seguinte à performance Ulysses'Syndrome no Palacio Belmonte, SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE lançou-se num projecto de loucos.

Rever, de uma forma sonora e contemporanea o mito de Medeia, uma das narrativas da Grécia Antiga, talvez a mais sanguinaria e sombria, embelezada com quantidade de assassinatos, viagens e traiçoes.

Medea é uma viagem sonora e visual no Mar Negro, seguindo o rasto de Jasão e os Argonautas, proposta por SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE. Uma obra elaborada a partir de gravações de ondas hertzianas e de fragmentos de vozes e de sons, perfazendo um total de 1600 horas de gravaçoes, recolhidos ao longo dos dois meses de travessia a bordo de um veleiro, especialmente equipado para a ocasião, de scanners, microfones e de antenas de longo alcance. Navegando, a 15 milhas da costa, na direcçao dos ponteiros do relógio e o equivalente de 3000km, Medea passa pela Turquia, Geórgia, Rússia, Crimeia, Ucrânia, Roménia e Bulgária, e surpreende-nos com a leitura sonora da região do mundo, onde a beleza vibra, sanguinária e tenebrosa, como na Medeia Clássica. Enquanto no mar, todos os sons eram diariamente, editados e classificados por territorios, para serem ulteriormente, prensados, numa composiçao feita pelos artistas, em discos vinis inteiramente feitos à mao, em ediçao limitada a 250 exemplares.

Um diario de bordo e um filme completam The Black Sea Project.

SOUNDWALK, fundado por Stephan Crasneanscki, é um colectivo internacional de artistas, baseado em Nova Iorque. Desde 2000 queSOUNDWALK, em nómadas do som, empreendem, sem tréguas, viagens improváveis, desde as terras desoladoras da Bessarabia até ao deserto de Rub al Khali, passando pela derrocada das torres gémeas, Ground Zero, à quais se juntou a voz do escritor Paul Auster. Explorando e recolhendo os sons do mundo envolvente, SOUNDWALK capta os fragmentos de uma realidade em movimento para dar forma a composições sonoras singulares.

O colectivo, que veio a Lisboa em 2011, para uma performance no Palácio Belmonte no programa das Festas de Lisboa tem vindo a participar em performances individuais e varias exposições de grupo no Centro Pompidou, “Paris-Delhi-Bombay” 2011, “Hors Pistes2010”; KaZantip Republic 2011; Florence Gould Hall (New York )2012; ARMA 17 Moscovo 2012; Lille Fantastic, Lille 2012; “Le son de nous” com Philippe Starck, Festival International Exit, Maison des Arts de Créteil, 2010; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Naples; Villa Noailles, Hyères, 2010; Singapour Art Museum, 2010; Exposition universelle 2010, Shanghai; “Art, Talks & Sensations” Abu Dhabi Fair, 2010; “ La Nuit Blanche” Paris 2009; Chanel Mobile Art Soundscape" projecto sonoro em colaboração com a maison de couture Chanel (2009);

SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE sao:  Stephan Crasneanscki (France)  Dug Winningham (USA)  Simone Merli (Italy)  Kamran Sadeghi (Iran-USA)

As performances do colectivo são diversas e site specific. Os artistas utilizam uma combinação de discos LP longplayers fabricados manualmente, múltiplos gira-discos, gravadores e computadores portáteis. Sendo o som e a musica o mais importante, as projecções vídeos criadas aquando da viagem e montadas especialmente em cada ocasião, não deixam de ser preponderantes e únicas, fazendo com que cada show de SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE seja uma experiência forte e inesquecível de imersão total no som

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The Black Sea Diary, a unique sound portrait of the Black Sea, those who live on its shores, and what thrives beneath its waters.

Medea is an original composition based on recordings of radio waves as well as voice and sound fragments collected by Soundwalk Collective during a two-month crossing in a sailing boat specially equipped with scanners, microphones and high-range aerials.  Medea reaches into Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Crimea, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria and embarks on a sound reading of a region of the world whose quivering beauty remains cruel and obscure – akin to the ancient Medea.

The Soundwalk Collective departed from the port of Istanbul for a two-month sailing trip along the coast of the Black Sea, with the purpose of collecting and composing the sounds that will make up the sound project.

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Sailing clockwise for 3000 Km, at a distance of 15 miles from the coast in order to clearly capture all possible radio communications and musical happenings between the water and the land, Soundwalk intercepted communication from Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia, Georgia and Turkey.

While at sea, all recordings were catalogued, edited and layered, and finally pressed onto custom-made vinyl records which contain the separate elements of the final sound piece for installation and performance.

A book and a film complete the Black Sea Project.

Communications between cargo ships, rhythms of the deep night, voices into the early morning, emergency calls, religious prayers and distant noises

The PANTEAO NACIONAL in Lisbon, with its 360° view's terrace, where the live performance will take place.

The members of Soundwalk will use turntables and live sound processing tools to create a two hour audio visual experience. It promises to be an extraordinary experience. Pantheonoi

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Who is SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE?

SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE is an international art collective based in New York City. Since 2000 they have been sonic nomads, embarking on never ending journeys from the desolate land of Bessarabia to the desert of Rub al Khali. By exploring and documenting the world around us through its sounds, the Collective abstracts and re-composes narrative sound pieces through fragments of reality to form distinct audible journeys.

The Collective's live performances are diverse and often site and venue specific. They use a combination of custom-cut vinyl records with multiple turntables, laptops and various FX processing pedals and mixers. Although sound and music are the primary forces in the live setting, projection of video specific to each performance piece creates an environment that is unescapable and unique. Live performances can also be transformed into temporary or permanent installations, post-performance, through custom-made turntables that are programmed to move automatically based on a musical score. Aesthetic refinement and conceptual narrative is paired with a performative impulse, making Soundwalk Collective’s shows intimate and powerful.

Created by Stephan Crasneanscki who lives and works in New York, the Collective's recent installations and performances were shown at Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris); MADRe Museum of Contemporary Art (Napoli); New Museum (New York); National Museum of Singapore NMS (Singapore); Abu Dhabi: Art, Talks and Senstions (Abu Dhabi); Mobile Art by Zaha Hadid (Hong kong, Tokyo, New York); EXIT Festival at Maison des Arts de Creteils (Paris); Villa de Noailles - Centre d'Art et de Culture Contemporain (Hyères); Gare Saint Saveur (Lille); Palacio Belmonte (Lisbon); KaZantip Republic 2011; Florence Gould Hall (New York); ARMA 17 (Moscow).

SOUNDWALK COLLECTIVE comprises four members:  Stephan Crasneanscki (France)  Dug Winningham (USA)  Simone Merli (Italy)  Kamran Sadeghi (Iran-USA)

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