Description:
“Around the river Bend” is a sound piece by Binaural Nodar’s director Rui Costa that was composed from a variety of sound sources and compositions created for or recorded at Paivascapes – Paiva River Sound Festival. This festival took place between March 4th and 8th of 2011 in various locations along the Paiva River, in Center Portugal, and included a program of sound installations, performances, video screenings and conferences dedicated to the exploration of riverside locations and communities through sound and multimedia art.
Following Patrick McGingleys’s invitation to dedicate one of his Framework radio shows to the festival, Binaural Nodar asked everyone that was part of Paivascapes to send a sound excerpt related in some way to the festival. The resulting piece features a variety of locations, times of day, seasons, and contexts including recordings of the festival performances, source material collected by the artists for their sound and audiovisual installations, sound clips included in Binaural Nodar Digital Archive, spontaneous recordings of social gatherings during the festival, and improvisations made by children inspired by the river soundscapes or by the names of the places where the festival happened.
The resulting work offered an aural window into a unique experience and, in a certain way, serves as a metaphoric tribute to this unique spatial-temporal context that imagined river with a thousand voices.
Sound composition by Rui Costa
Source material performed, composed or recorded by:
Anna Hints, Charles Stankievech, Duncan Whitley, Ignaz Schick, Jez riley French, Lasse-Marc Riek, Luís Costa, Maile Colbert, Manuela Barile, Marc Behrens, Marja-Liisa Plats, Patrick McGinley, Phill Niblock, Rui Costa, Samuel Barile Costa, Students of Canelas Primary School and Tiago Carvalho.