GEUMGANG NATURE ART BIENNALE 2006 SOUTH KOREA
PROJECT „THE SINGING MOUNTAIN“, FIVE MONOLITHS SOUNDSCAPE
„STONE RITE“ – MONOLITHS SONG
Maria Dundakova, Sound performance
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Project „STONE RITE“ Performance and Soundscape, Choreography for five monoliths
Project “The Singing mountain” – Soundscape
- let the language of Nature become audible
- create a location in nature for contemplation and dialogue
- create an open work which lives through the participation of the visitors of all ages using their several senses (hearing, smelling, touching, seeing), independently of the season.
- enable visitors to develop their own creativity and create an always changing relationship with the mountain’s sonority, the wind, the singing of the birds, the splashing water, the falling leaves, the clouds, the sun rays, and the wide horizon
The Project
What is a Singing Mountain?
Monoliths are chosen through which the mountain expresses its tonal properties. Different strategies are used to transform the monoliths in order to increase the tonal properties. Through the use of a rigid object (metal, wood, stone), the inherent sound is made audible, thus transforming the stone (and the mountain, of which it is a part) into an instrument, to allow it to sing.
Soundscape Sound Circle
Pre-existing monoliths that are already arranged in the shape of a circle are engraved with “sound spaces” (grooves); see “Realization”.
Visitors can simultaneously play on one or more of the monoliths, as instruments, to produce “monoliths songs”.
Realization of the “Singing monoliths“
I cut grooves into the monoliths using a stone milling machine to get rhythms between empty and full spaces. The different depths, heights and widths of the grooves, as well as the individual character of the stone, produce sound spaces that are activated by beating the stone with rigid objects. These can be made out of different materials such as metal, wood, stone, etc. A number of different tonal scales emerge.
GEUMGANG NATURE ART BIENNALE 2006, KOREA SOUTH
PREALISATION: PROJECT “THE SINGING MOUNTAIN“, SOUNDSCAPE
To let the language of Nature become audible
Maria Dundakova
Stone sound score played with right hand played with left hand
Stone sound score
played with left hand played with right hand
GEUMGANG NATURE ART BIENNALE 2006 SOUTH KOREA
PROJECT „THE SINGING MOUNTAIN“, FIVE MONOLITHS SOUNDSCAPE
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„STONE RITE“ – MONOLITHS SONG
Maria Dundakova, Sound performance
Project „STONE RITE“ Performance and Soundscape, Choreography for five monoliths