Artist : Jamie Drouin
Title : The Island
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2014
Date : 2014-10-00
Tracks : 1
Label : Infrequency
Catalog : IN021
Source : CDA
Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1
Length : 40:00
Size : 189.04
Tracklist:
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1 The Island 40:00
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40:00
THE ISLAND
Jamie Drouin
catalogue IN021
40 minutes
A 40 minute composition examining the sonic and environmental pollution on
Sarichef, a small (12 km2) inhabited barrier island located along the Chukchi
Sea in Northwest Alaska.
By combining various types of microphones and sensors, THE ISLAND becomes a
sensory-extended portrait of a fragile ecosystem under radical transformation
from both natural and human intervention.
In 2010 and 2011, I travelled to the remote island of Sarichef , located in
Northwest Alaska, to collect recordings for a sound installation. The island had
already been the focus of several news stories on its rapidly eroding shoreline,
due to the increasingly higher annual temperatures and sea levels, melting
permafrost, and more intense storms. My installation Perimeter:Sarichef was
created as a sonic ætime capsuleÆ of the islandÆs receding perimeter.
This new work, entitled The Island, attempts to present another complex layer in
the portrait of this fragile island, itÆs extensive environmental and sonic
pollution, something which stood in stark contrast to what I had expected based
on my initial research, but was ever-present during my recording process.
SarichefÆs isolation, combined with importing consumer goods has resulted in a
large community landfill that burns through the year, the constant deep resonant
hum of 3-wheel recreational vehicles and generators, and rivulets of oily runoff
which stain the coastline.
The Island is a composition filled with sudden shifts in perception. The
listener moves from a pastoral waterscape to the combined low frequency sounds
of ocean waves and electrical generators, to buffeting wind mixed with the
static crackle of burning waste. The Island creates a highly textural collage
where the edges of natural and unnatural sounds bleed together to become another
type of landscape experience. At the end of the composition we hear what sounds
like radio static, but is actually the island in the process of disintegrating,
as the permafrost breaks down, creating an audible hissing vacuum between the
sand particles.
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