Sound Journey
3 percussionists
Programme notes
Sound Journey was an exploration into how sounds produced by an instrument would develop as a work in progress whilst the creation of the instrument was itself in progress. The architects involved in the design of the structure responded to the natural environment and to resonances of materials. The composer responded in turn to the structure conceptualised by sound artist Baudouin Oosterlynck and created by students of the National University of Singapore in 2006. The process comes full circle and the structure itself responds to nature.
Essay by R Casteels
see Eye for ear, ear for eye (2004) under Articles
Essay by L Lye
see R Casteels, More than meets the eye (2007) under Articles
Additional information
see Architecture Special Project under Articles
Programme book and poster
see Sound Journey from architecture to music (2006) under Articles
Recording
see link and green cover logbook #3
Quote
"Sound Journey gives Casteels the opportunity to forge new ground by writing for an instrument that has yet to be born, as yet non-existent. The work is then a journey of exploration, into how sound produced by the instrument would develop as work on it progresses".
Lionel Lye, Singapore
Listening Pavilion by Baudouin Oosterlynck (reproduced with the permission of the artist)
Duration:
13' 3"
Composed In:
2006
Dedicated to:
Parts:
For CD Taman (track 4), please email <rc@robertcasteels.com>
First performance:
01.11.06 NUS Department of Architecture
First performed by:
Guhan Ramalingam, Dennis Sim and Ngoh Kheng Seng (percussionists)
Commissioned by:
The National University of Singapore Department of Architecture
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