A TALE OF TWO CITIES

REDISOUND for Revolutionary Sound (click to reach the page and listen)

Re-di-Sound produced for Radio Papesse-2008 by Barbara__D // Choascope

RADIO PAPESSE asked artists, musicians and radio producers to let them listen to their idea of the ‘sound of the revolution’

Re-designed sounds, ready sounds like readymade, a short walk through the sounds of everyday life…Can we apply the duchampian readymade praxis to sound? Objects delocated and decontextualised assume a new identity: the process of taking elements from a precise reality and recomposing them in a new vision, capable of disorienting; the meaning of things is in itself revolutionary:a sound, a noise, a voice out of its proper context assume a new identity, the acoustuc identity that we associate to a sound by habits starts to vacillate…This is the quiestion I tried to answer to the radio papesse call: Is it licit to apply the duchampian readymade praxis to an acoustic dimension? Can the elaboration of an acoustic event/casuality be considered an extension of the duchampian ready made?

Capturing an acoustic element, isolate it from its natural atmosphere; operating a debordian détournement; freeing the notes fitted in their “proper” sound action; is it legitim to “steal” a sound, a READY SOUND from its enviorement; in order to employ it in other actions and let it play somewhere else? Can we compare the overcoming of the duchampian retinal space to the overtaking of the acoustic dimension?

barbara