Bangor Sound City in collaboration with INTER/Actions presents
Singing Menai Bridge "In and Out" and Audio Walks.

10^th April, 2012
15:30 – 17:00

On-site concert Location: Bridgemasters House, Menai Suspension Bridge

Musical Composition/Improvisation: "In and Out” – for Menai Singing Bridge

SITE: Jodi Rose invited musicians at INTER/actions: Symposium to improvise with live sounds from the Menai Suspension bridge in a concert at the bridge master's house, a small space on the bridge. This event is organised by Bangor Sound City, accompanied by guided audio walks with the Thomas Telford Centre.

QUADRAPHONIC AUDIO: The sounds of the bridge will be processed in real time with multichannel audio (multilayer granular synthesis, Spectral Delay, FFT Filtering) by Andreas Weixler using his Spectra Sonic System, instrumental improvisation by Se-Lien Chuang on bass recorder and Xenia Pestova on toy piano.

SINGING BRIDGES

Every bridge is connected to all other bridges through the vibrations in their structure, like gigantic telegraph wires circling the globe. Singing Bridges is a state of mind that you enter every time you cross a bridge. Transcending the outlines of geography, crossing the bridge transports you into another dimension of reality. Sounds from the bridge are woven into a "dark, industrial, chaotic, strange and beautiful" composition, a psycho-geographic performance exploring mythology and poetics of bridges.

"In and Out" – for Menai Singing Bridge

Amplifying the cables and bridge structure, the Bridge becomes an instrument in an on-site intervention with live multichannel audio processing and instrumental improvisation, taking us on a mysterious journey through a suddenly unfamiliar urban landscape. Listening to the strange music of the bridge and Spectra Sonic System is an aural glimpse into the inexpressible, the intangible. Opening a space between where we live and where we dream, suspended across the threshold into another state...

CREDITS:

Jodi Rose : Singing Bridge (bridge amplification, concept, live bridge sounds)
Andreas Weixler : Multichannel realtime sound processing (musical concept, Spectra Sonic System)
Se-Lien Chuang : Bass recorder (musical concept, Instrumental improvisation)
Xenia Pestova : Toy piano (musical concept, Instrumental improvisation)
Production: Bangor Sound City & Jodi Rose
Technician: Depth PA

Andreas Weixler & Se-Lien Chuang
Atelier Avant Austria
composition & media arts

Dr Xenia Pestova
Pennaeth Perfformio / Head of Performance
Ysgol Cerddoriaeth / School of Music
Prifysgol Bangor University