CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Edwin Van Der Heide
Album....: Wavescape
Label....: Staalplaat
Size.....: 35,1 MB
Source...: CDDA
Playtime.: 20:28 min
Genre....: Ambient
Release..: Aug-25-2009
Encoder..: LAME V3.97 -V2 --Vbr-New
Quality..: VBRkbps 44,1Hz Joint-Stereo
TrackList:
01 20:28 Wavescape
Release Notes:
From the linernotes: Wavesacpe is a soundinstallation inspired
by the sound of underwater environments. I was approached by
CELL Iniators of incidents to make a contribution to their
Homeport project focusing on Rotterdam as a harbour city.
Homeport was part of Rotterdam Cultural Capital of Europe 2001.
There are many boats traversing Rotterdam on the Nieuwe Maas going
inwards Europe and back. One of the beautiful locations to experience
this within the city is the Wilhelmina Kade. I became fascinated by the
fact that the boats pass by with almost no audible sound. In the past
I had been doing some experiments with underwater sound and I became
interested in researching the sounds which boats produce. Wavescape
is an installation which makes the underwater sound audible at the
waterside. The goal was not to just make the sound from underwater
acoustically audible but also to translate the underwater space into
a perceivable acoustic space. I've been reseraching acoustic and
electronic wave front recording, synthesis and reproduction with the
installations 'a World beyond the Loud-speaker' and 'Impuls #6'.
These installations use a surface of forty independent loudspeakers. W
avescape is using the wavefront technique as well but in the shape of
a line array. Twenty-four hydrophones (underwater microphones) are
placed over a horizontal line in the water along the waterside.
Each hydrophone is connected to its own amplifier and speaker.
There are twenty-four speakers placed in a line on the waterside.
Together the 24 speakers make an acoustic reproduction of the
spatial shape of the waves from the underwater sound.
This creates a live reproduction of the underwater sound space.
The result is very preceivable and almost touchable. From the
waterside you listen into the underwater space. You hear an
incredible depth and width. The speed of sound underwater is
about four and half times faster then the speed of sound through
the air. The sound underwater reaches you gaster than the pure
acoustic sound. This creates a possibility for interesting
interferences between both of them. Wavescape establishes the
sound which belongs to the view of the passing boats