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Alexanderplatz, tuned city, bucky ball

Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 8, 10178 Berlin, Deutschland

A 4-minute field recording by udo noll made in Berlin, Germany on 3 July 2008, in the afternoon. Soundscape: crowds & voices, contact-mic recordings and soundwalks.

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Alexanderplatz, tuned city, bucky ball
3:49

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Recordist's notes

BuckyMedia, performance by Farmers Manual, Berlin, Alexanderplatz, tuned city, 03.07.2008, 16:45, people moving the bucky ball all over the place. wireless contact microphones transmit the vibrations, a dj remixes simultaneously with various soundtracks Buckymedia is a work conceived by Farmers Manual as 80-sided, 5m diameter bucky balls, in reference to the architect and visionary Richard Buckminster Fuller. By moving these structures, the viewers can navigate through different interpretations of real and virtual spaces and time. Metaphorically speaking the big balls represent the globe, the net, and the circular communication of the web. As physical object they are a space within a space, it is an offer of a different type of architecture, one that is circular, expendable and infinite. Their meaning is created in the moment when a viewer is interacting with them - walking into and through them, standing within them, watching or even touching them. The installation is about making oneself available to a continual barrage of meanings and themes, so that one is transformed into a being spread, distributed a different configuration of the self. http://web.fm/twiki-bin/view/Hiaz/BuckyMediaConceptYosi

Written by udo noll on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Berlin is a city of about 3,426,354 people in State of Berlin, Germany. OttoAnna lists 700 field recordings from here.

Equipment mentioned: Contact microphones. Piezo pickups that record vibrations in solid materials instead of airborne sound.

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