Sydney Open Form Pavilion of Air - test version

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Sydney

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Walk slowly to allow sounds to enter gradually, notice the borders of these zones where new sounds fade-in, spend time in some places to notice the long sounds develop, how the view morphs with the sound.

This test version presents two thirds of the area (about 3 of the 4.5 hectares) of the "Baile Átha Cliath Pailliún Aeir i bhFoirm Oscailte" (Dublin Open Form Pavilion of Air) design placed in the central northern section of Sydney Domain Philips Precint - this is, however, only part of a single work and intended as a sample which is shifted from its original context.

An Open Form Pavilion of Air is a floating roof of sound, triggered by GPS and accessed via a smartphone, headphones and the echoes.xyz app. The Open Form Pavilion of Air series spans works created for Warsztaty Kultury (Lublin, PL), Sirius Arts Centre (Cobh, IE), Folldal Kommune (NO), Sound Art Lab (Struer, DK), Piteå Science Park (SWE), Bergen Architecture School (NO) and the 4.5hectare audiowork for Merrion Square/New Music Dublin (IRL). Each Open Form Pavilion of Air is in a unique tuning system, the many sounds comprising this structure have the effect for listeners of creating a modulation of the location and its context – an immersive, profoundly spatial and physical experience. The Pavilion audiowork has no visible presence outside the app and can only be accessed and enjoyed on-site in the Domain.

This recocated test version of the Dublin Open Form Pavilion of Air audiowork is enjoyed by walking through the different zones mapped throughout the Domain while using your mobile phone, the Echoes app and headphones. You become a participatory listener producing a composition in real-time - your navigation creating a unique choreography via GPS, combining and changing sounds through the Domain via the app. Hear the many layers of the metropolitan harbourside location and its context become transformed by the many sounds forming the Pavilion, revealing an immersive, profoundly spatial and physical experience.

Made from many overlapping zones ('echoes'), each Pavilion comprises a floating acoustic architecture. The 'shape' of the sound within each zone is derived from architectural roofing forms (like gables, hyperbolic paraboloids, mansard), together what they create is not a solid roof but a porous airborne concept, one that retains a stark physicality, letting in the elements and surrounding sound but also changing them - subtly reframing visitors' experience of the Domain’s audiosphere.

The series and its name draws on Polish architects Oskar & Zofia Hansen’s “Open Form” architecture and their work in post-war Poland developing social housing and a concomitant renewal of public space. The Open Form Pavilion of Air series offers a playful renewal and reframing of public space as an essential engagement for the community.

A complete primer on the Open Form Pavilion of Air series & information on Dublin Pavilion via RTÉ Culture (Irish ABC equivalent) https://www.rte.ie/culture/2023/0327/1366079-new-music-dublin-welcomes-you-to-the-open-form-pavilion-of-air/


Robert Curgenven
Robert Curgenven
http://recordedfields.net/ Robert Curgenven creates large-scale audiovisual experiences, performances, albums and installations, that emphasize physicality, our embodied response to sound and its correspondence to location, air, weather and architecture - the underlying significance of context. His recorded output includes "Tailte Cré-Umha (Bronze Lands)" and "SIRÈNE", pipe organ works, for his Recorded Fields Editions; "Oltre" and "Built Through" for LINE imprint; and "Climata", recorded in 15 of James Turrell’s Skyspaces across 9 countries. Festival performances include Sydney Festival, Maerzmusik (Kraftwerk Berlin), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Cork Midsummer, Ultrahang (Budapest). Works and installations produced include those for National Gallery of Australia, National Museum of Poland (Krakow), Palazzo Grassi (Venice), Transmediale (Berlin) and National Sculpture Factory (IRL). "Curgenven makes the point that sounds are fundamental to our perception of the world... hearing the complexities of a place and time is intersected by memories of the familiar which are in turn displaced and transformed.” Realtime Magazine (AUS) “Behind the music lurk such [disparate] presences as Alvin Lucier, King Tubby, Murray Schafer and Eliane Radigue.” The Wire Magazine (UK)

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