To hear on Sunday 3 and 10 January 2016, 2pm - 9pm:
Ornaments II
(2015, Premiere)
by Ricardo Arias (Colombia)
Loudspeaker installation: Knut Remond / ohrenhoch
Ricardo Arias on 'Ornaments II':
The first version of the piece Ornaments was composed for You may or you may not be (see link below), an event organized by Modelab to mark the 95th anniversary of Erik Satie’s Musique d’Ameublement (Furniture Music) and presented at Ex-Galerie Barbazanges in Paris on March 8, 2015. It was a short piece which proposed placing a few ornamental objects on top of Satie’s pieces of musical furniture. Each ornament is tied or secured to another instance (occurrence) of itself or of another object by a gliding sound thread. The second version of Ornaments, much longer tan the first, presents four objects and lays them out on top of the furniture music in a very careful, slow and protracted manner.
Audio Field Report no. 40 / Sound activism 19: Interview with Ricardo Arias by Knut Remond. Limited Edition audio cassette, 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, the Noise Shop' (and to hear there on headphone in the archive space).
Ricardo Arias is an experimental improvising musician, sound artist, teacher and researcher. His work has focused on improvisation using unconventional sound sources both acoustic and electronic. He also makes sound installations and multi-channel electroacoustic compositions. Arias has performed in venues and festivals in North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. He is also active as a curator of sound art and experimental music events. He is Associate Professor in the Art Department at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.