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2009 _ 001 Urban Songline Latitude: 51.44768° N - 51.44729° N / Longitude: 5.45609° E - 5.45529° E - Flux-S, Eindhoven, NL
The tradition of the Songlines, a system for navigation and caretaking of their land among Aboriginal Australians, translated to mapping urban space by creating music from its topography, discussing how we use and experience the public domain and to what degree we can claim ownership over it.
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For Flux-S Arts Festival I invited, in collaboration with Mexican composer Jomi Delgado, skateboarder Michiel 'Kledder' Kelders of AreaFiftyOne skate park to ride the architecture of the SBP building on Strijp-S in order to record the noise that is created under his skateboard and around him. These sounds are then transformed by electronic devices into a musical composition resulting in a translation of the visual aspect of the building into an audible one.
The philosophers Deleuze and Guattari state that in order to territorialize e.g. give significance to a place we must first de-territorialize, done here by stripping-off original meaning and reducing the topography of architecture into noise (= non-music), and subsequently re-territorialize, in this case by creating a musical soundscape from this noise, to allow imagining a new relationship to this place.
The tradition of the Songlines, a system for navigation, spiritual embodiment and caretaking of their land among Aboriginal Australians, inspired me to map urban spaces by creating music from their topography discussing how we use and experience the public domain and to what degree we can claim ownership over it.
Flux-S Arts Festival was curated by Jan Schuijren. For more information please click here to visit the Flux-S website.
Urban Songlines Flux-S was realized with generous support of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
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