To hear on Sunday 26 May and 2 June 2013, 2pm - 9pm:
Playscapes
Take A: Beethoven in the hills
von Bernadette Johnson
Bernadette Johnson on 'Beethoven am Berg':
Playscapes consist of short fragments from an audio loop (total duration 39 min), which are played into the room in aleatoric order.?
The idea concerns sound perception, or how to convert a hearing experience into concrete sound.When the playback is stopped, what happens in the resulting silence??
In „Beethoven in the hills" fragments of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony become mixed with varying audio dimensions and integrated into an imaginary landscape.?
An open association space is created, where moods somewhere between idyllic and mysterious appear, and then fade back away into "black noise" (non-colored silence).
Bernadette Johnson
* 1955 in St. Gallen, lives in Basel. ?
She produces soundworks for Radio and other acoustical spaces. Her central interest consists of acoustical events wherever they may be used and perceived: ranging from single sounds to composed music, from live sounds to stored, remembered, or even "just" conceived fragments. The distance between the listener and the sound is not only the object of reflection, but also the working space.?
Bernadette Johnson was awarded the Karl Sczuka Promotion Prize and also received further awards such as the 2ème Prix Phonurgia Nova.