Borderline Listening Post

As part of the  Borderline Ballroom music collective, Stanier Black-Five (Jo Burzynska) has curated the Borderline Listening Post, a public sound installation in Lyttelton, New Zealand’s Civic Square. It features works contributed by local, national and international sonic artists. Some have responded directly to the space, while others have been inspired from afar to create works that range from soundscapes using the local environment as their source to electronic pieces and electroacoustic compositions.

A selection of the works were also included in the Tin Palace gallery’s “Illuminate exhibition” in June 2013.

For more information about the installation, programme and featured artists, check out the new Borderline Ballroom/Cantabrian Society of Sonic Artists website.

Silo performance on Touch Radio

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Stanier Black-Five’s performance at Silo 6 at the Audio Foundation’s Now! Here! Festival in Auckland has  been released on the Touch label’s online arm, Touch Radio.

This performance in one New Zealand’s most reverberant spaces, harnesses the amazing acoustic properties of a complex of six disused cement silos on Auckland’s waterfront. After making a series of initial field recordings within the silos, Stanier Black-Five then re-introduced these into the same space as the source material for this powerful live work.

http://www.touchradio.org.uk/touchradio_91_stanier_blackfive.html

Rising Tides Festival

Stanier Black-Five will be making a special outdoor performance as part of the Rising Tides Festival in Wellington on Thursday 8th December. More information about the festival can be found at: www.soundexplorers.co.nz/rising-tides-festival/

UK/European tour

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Stanier Black-Five is touring with Malcolm Riddoch in Europe: September 2012, with the following dates:

Ljubljana 14.09.12: Earzoom Festival – Body Waves
London 17.09.12: noise=noise – Global Resonances
London 18.09.12: ABA @ Goldsmiths University – Body Waves

Ljubljana 14.09.12 Earzoom Festival @ International Computer Music Conference – http://www.icmc2012.si/
Body Waves
Body Waves is a live infrasonic performance whose primary sound source in this exploration of vibroacoustic perception are the unique recordings made by Stanier Black-Five at the epicentre of the recent earthquakes in New Zealand, which capture the vibrations of its massive aftershocks, collapsing buildings and subsequent demolitions. These are transformed by Riddoch to accentuate lower frequency harmonics in a spatial work spatialised through a quadraphonic set-up to immerse its audience/participants in this visceral music of the body.

London 17.09.12 noise=noise – http://nnnnn.org.uk/doku.php?id=noise_noise_170912
“Global Resonances”
Australasian sound/noise artists Stanier Black-Five (NZ) and Malcolm Riddoch (Aus) will be collaborating on a live work in three parts using both the natural acoustic resonance of the space in which they perform and that of a location on the other side of the world. Stanier Black-Five will start proceedings using field recordings made in disused cement silos in Auckland, NZ that harness their amazing natural reverb. Riddoch will then enhance this reverberant soundscape using live feedback techniques exploring the resonant frequencies of the soundscape within the performance space. Finally the feedback residue will play out within the space itself. From Auckland to a synthesis of Auckland-London to London acoustic spaces, Global Resonances traverses space-time through electroacoustic noise.

London 18.09.12 ABA @ Goldsmiths University, New Cross – Body Waves – http://aaaabbbbaaaa.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/aba08/

Oenosthesia: sound and wine

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Oenosthesia is a multi-sensory installation exploring the synergies between sound and taste. The work was created during a Suone dal Confine artist residency in Irpinia, Italy in July 2012 from field recordings made by Stanier Black-Five within the region’s wineries and vineyards. Their different frequencies and timbres were designed to interact with selected local wines served at specific times during its performance. The installation was premiered at Interferenze’s Farm 2012 Festival in Tufo    

Here Stanier Black-Five talks about the concept during the installation’s creation.

Listen to Oenosthesia on Soundcloud. For the full multisensory experience, suggestions of wines to accompany its three sections are:

 

00:00 A mature Greco di Tufo or similar mid-weight white wine with some richness eg Chardonnay
06:00 A youthful Greco di Tufo, spumante/sparkling or comparable minerally high acid white eg Riesling
12:00 Requires a full bodied red, such as Taurasi or a Cabernet Sauvignon/blend