{"id":425,"date":"2009-05-29T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T09:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2008.cybersonica.org\/?p=425"},"modified":"2009-05-29T10:44:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T09:44:44","slug":"soundlife-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.cybersonica.org\/2009\/soundlife-london\/","title":{"rendered":"SoundLife London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Leicester Square Gardens, WC2
\n4th – 14th June, 9am-7pm
\nLaunch event: <\/strong>Thursday, 4th June, 11am,\u00a0 Leicester Square Gardens, WC2<\/span>
\nEvening talk with Martyn Ware:<\/strong> Thursday, 4th June, 7pm, Westminster Reference Library, St Martin\u2019s Street, WC2H 2HP<\/span>
\nPlease RSVP to:<\/strong> alexa@arts-com<\/span><\/h3>\n

More details at:
\nwww.westminster.gov.uk\/leisureandculture\/artsandentertainment\/
\nsoundlife.cfm<\/a>
\nwww.westminster.gov.uk\/leisureandculture\/artsandentertainment\/
\nsoundlife2.cfm<\/a>
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SoundLife London<\/strong><\/p>\n

is a unique sound composition created especially for Leicester Square Gardens by sound artist and musician Martyn Ware which reveals the 3-dimensional sound world that surrounds us at all times in the most fascinating and diverse city in the world.<\/p>\n

SoundLife London plays continuously each day between 9am and 7pm. Sonic events occur on the hour, quarter, half, and three-quarter hours.<\/p>\n

SoundLife London is an hour long, looped \u2018soundscape\u2019 mixing found and collected sounds with an ambient musical composition. It aims to augment the everyday background noise of Leicester Square with subtle melody and musical refrains that appear to float on the wind and distant sounds from the city moving ghostlike around the park.<\/p>\n

A variety of sonic themes are introduced at ten minute intervals each hour throughout the day: 00 – Music | 10 – History | 20 – Locations | 30 – Theatre & Film | 40 – Ethnicity | 50 – Wildlife<\/p>\n

Making SoundLife London<\/strong><\/p>\n

The London Borough of Westminster\u2019s unique geography and demographic – from city centre to the river, street market to shopping mall, council estate to leafy suburb – provides a unique opportunity for the creators of SoundLife London to work with local residents to include sounds that reflect the makeup of their communities and
\nimprove awareness of Westminster\u2019s diverse cultures.<\/p>\n

Audio clips for SoundLife London have been collected through an outreach and education programme in which a team from Future Of Sound, including musician Lewis Sykes and storyteller Natacha Bryan, ran a series of workshops with participating groups exploring the creative and practical challenges involved in collecting sounds which could be imagined as a \u2018sonic postcard\u2019 of their community and integrated into the 3D sound composition.<\/p>\n

Participating Westminster Organisations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barrow Hill Junior School, St John\u2019s Wood
\nCollege Park School, Westbourne Green
\nDigital Media Unit, Bayswater
\nEbury Bridge Youth Centre, Victoria
\nOpen Age Hub, Victoria
\nQueens Park Play Group, Queens Park
\nSt Marylebone C of E School, Marylebone<\/p>\n

More information about SoundLife London can be found in Westminster Reference Library<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please visit the exhibit in the ibrary, on St Martin\u2019s Street at the south side of Leicester Square, for a full background to the project, and to leave your comments.<\/p>\n

SoundLife London has been made possible by <\/strong><\/p>\n

City of Westminster, Arts Council England, Illustrious, Arts Co, Future Of Sound, Audio Boo, Starbucks Coffee, AIG.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n

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Leicester Square Gardens, WC2 4th – 14th June, 9am-7pm Launch event: Thursday, 4th June, 11am,\u00a0 Leicester Square Gardens, WC2 Evening talk with Martyn Ware: Thursday, 4th June, 7pm, Westminster Reference Library, St Martin\u2019s Street, WC2H 2HP Please RSVP to: alexa@arts-com More details at: www.westminster.gov.uk\/leisureandculture\/artsandentertainment\/ soundlife.cfm www.westminster.gov.uk\/leisureandculture\/artsandentertainment\/ soundlife2.cfm www.futureofsound.org\/event07.htm SoundLife London is a unique sound composition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.cybersonica.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.cybersonica.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.cybersonica.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.cybersonica.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.cybersonica.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.cybersonica.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.cybersonica.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.cybersonica.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.cybersonica.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.cybersonica.org\/2009\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}