A Slightly Curving Place
2020
Ambisonic Sound Installation - - - Collaborative Group Exhibition
Credits: Production / Location and Studio Recording / Composition / Spatialization / Mixing
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Responding to the work of Sound Recordist Umashankar Mathravadi, A Slightly Curving Place proposed an Acoustic Archeology of ancient temple sites on the Subcontinent. It took the form of a multi-authored sound play, presented on a 21 speaker geodesic dome, encompassing on-site ambisonic recordings from India, written scripts, original musics, poetry, ethnomusicology and electro-acoustic experiments.
Friedman led the engineering and spatialization of the project’s sound and created a passage based on location recordings of a text by Alexander Keefe — performed by Padma Damodaran and Ayaz Pasha, additional recording by Sukanta Majumdar — which imagined the soundscapes of the ancient amphitheatre at Nagarjunakonda and the industrial modernity of the amphitheatre’s translocation before the original site’s flooding during the construction of the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam.
Commissioned by Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
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