Kaikujen Säiliö is a site-specific immersive sound piece for brass band and live electronics, written for Öljysäiliö 468, a vast, decommissioned oil tank recently transformed into a permanent light installation and event venue in Kruunuvuorenranta, East Helsinki.
The piece was written by Andrea Mancianti in 2019-2020 and was scheduled to be presented live in August 2020, as one of the events part of last year’s Helsinki Festival. Due to the pandemic the festival has been cancelled, but in order to support the musicians in those hard days, the production had decided to still carry on tests and rehearsals last year. In addition sonic and visual materials from Öljysäiliö 468 collected during those days, became the elements of the internet based audio-video piece remote/displaced by quietSpeaker, presented at Ars Electronica Festival 2020.
Kaikujen Säiliö is a site-specific immersive sound piece for brass band and live electronics, written for Öljysäiliö 468, a vast, decommissioned oil tank recently transformed into a permanent light installation and event venue in Kruunuvuorenranta, East Helsinki.
The piece was written by Andrea Mancianti in 2019–2020 and was scheduled to be presented live in August 2020, as one of the events part of last year’s Helsinki Festival. Due to the pandemic the festival has been cancelled, but in order to support the musicians in those hard days, the production had decided to still carry on tests and rehearsals. In addition sonic and visual materials from Öljysäiliö 468 collected during those days, became the elements of the internet based audio-video piece remote/displaced by quietSpeaker, presented at Ars Electronica Festival 2020.
A documentation of the rehearsals with the musicians can be found here: www.andreamancianti.com/kaikujensailio
remote/displaced @ ars electronica garden Espoo/Helsinki
09–14/09/2020
remote/displaced allows for an immersive exploration of a virtualized physical space: Öljysäiliö 468, a vast, decommissioned and repurposed oil tank in East Helsinki.
Due to its shape and materials, its acoustics are extremely peculiar, with long reverberation times, shimmering echoes and immersive radiating patterns. In addition, it is an almost magical site for a modern sonic ritual due to its status as a relic of fossil-fuel culture, its position by the shore, and its nature, in-between a closed industrial space not meant for humans and a shell open to the surrounding land- and soundscapes, that constantly filter and reverberate in its open cavity.
The project takes the shape of a small collection of brief immersive audio-visual visits to this special remote place, exploring ways to listen to the encounter between sound, technology, space and landscape, as it emerges like a precarious ecosystem, where the boundaries between natural and artificial are constantly renegotiated and deformed by technology.
In between physical and virtual space, the brass instruments, an array of recycled sonic devices, the light, the wind and the sea waves, filtering through the holes on the metallic reverberant surfaces, transform one another.
The audience can access the various short experiences using a wide array of technologies, from VR goggles, to mobile phones or personal computers, both remotely and in situ during the festival.
https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/remote-displaced/