World Trade Center Recordings

août 1999 - septembre 1999

Créé en collaboration avec WorldViews Studio Residency, un programme du Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Fonds partiels fournis par une bourse indépendante Radio/Sound Art Fellowship de Media Alliance, rendue possible grâce au généreux soutien de la Fondation Jerome.

Enregistrements intérieurs et extérieurs du bâtiment et de sa structure, au 91ème étage, face nord, lors d'une tempête pendant sa résidence du Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY, en 1999.

Microphones de contact, Delay, Filterbank : Stephen VITIELLO

Conception et assistance technique : Bobby BIELECKI

CD-R Audio, 5 plages, jaquette et boîtier polystyrène cristal

Disque audio numérique compact inscriptible

With hand-made contact mics and photocells connected to a telescope (made in collaboration with Bob Bielecki), Vitiello was able to pick up the sounds on the other side of the sealed 3-inch pane windows of his studio at the 91st floor. Aural material included passing planes, helicopters, storm clouds and traffic, as well as the building itself swaying ominously. The 1999 studio exhibition featured pre-recorded sounds that were played back in the studio. In subsequent exhibitions, a large-scale photograph is also exhibited in an otherwise darkened gallery. Audio is mixed to 5.1 surround sound. After the fall of the towers in 2001, this piece obviously accrued more melancholic meaning as a memorial to the fallen towers, having perhaps even overshadowed the work’s original intention. Through sound, Vitiello now carries added responsibility for the memory of that lost space. www.stephenvitiello.com/pdf/catalogueessaybyregineasha.pdf

39 minutes 36 secondes

Epreuve d'artiste, Stephen Vitiello, CD audio inscriptible (non numéroté), automne 1999.

S.B.DR. : S.V.

Achat, 2001

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