in early 2008 latvian artist maksims ?ente?evs and i led a workshop in tartu, estonia entitled sound as space / sound as language. our activities included intense acoustic explorations of our shared space, in this instance tartu’s genialistide klubi, using found objects and elements of the space itself, and a blind soundwalk, in which participants were led individually with closed eyes through an extended many-handed soundscape inhabiting the entire building. this composition has been created from recordings made of our collective activities. many thanks go to all the soundmakers: siim angerpikk, teresa heinonen, mari jıgiste, aleksei kasnel, karl laanekask, kaj lahtinen, triinu lille, diana lohmus, eija mustonen, laura paju, tuukka seppala, anni terava, sven vabar, kristel vali, aleksei zaitsev, kaspars kalni??, laura elcere, and maksims ?ente?evs.
participant sven vabar had this to say about the experience:
members of our group reminded me of some children who have come home with some weird creatures, like kittens or toads or butterflies or huge beetles or midges. and they are not sure whether their mom will be happy about those creatures or not. but it was nice to see how our members after a short while set all their creatures free in the big house where the workshop was held. the house became full of small bold creatures whose names nobody knew. and it seemed to me to happen that the people who brought along all those strange creatures vanished, became unnoticeable or like shadows compared to those sonic creatures, who became much more real.
photo: laura elcere
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