Airstream
open-air sound performance
Airstream is an open-air sound performance which aims at creating an aural layer to the visual components of its surroundings. The sounds produced are a combination of on location recordings and digital processed sounds, mixed in real time. A live soundtrack is created without imitating nor purely opposing to the scenery – a symbiosis of the amplified and the natural sounds.
The performance took place for the first time in the urban wastelands of Tallinn as part of Tuned City 2011 Sonic Landmarks.
A quadrophonic set-up was installed next to the sea and close to the old prison Patarei. The aural landscape of this place was marked by the horns of the cruiseships leaving once up to twice a day, constant deep drones of boat engines, seagulls in the distance, water washing ashore and an almost every day presence of wind.
People take place in the inner circle of the soundfield, immersed by the amplified and natural sounds in combination with a very present and strong visual scenery.
Short fragment :
Thanks to framework radio and Lewis McGuffie for recording part of the concert.
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Recordings made in Tallinn as preparation for the concert