Sobralasolas CD Out & Episode Two in the making
SOBRALASOLAS! is a radio opera for live, streamed and recorded sounds. This first episode is produced by Jérôme Joy Caroline Bouissou (Caroline), Dinahbird (Bird), Björn Eriksson (Miulew), Jérôme Joy (Jerome), Kaffe Matthews (Mlle Jaune), Gregory Whitehead (TêteBlanche) This project, which begun in 2007, gathers a international group of sound artists who through network collaboration and performances are in the process of developing a series of acousmatic episodes. The Cd is out on 17th August on Avatar/OHM editions.
« Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. » (Lily Tomlin)
« I believe that ghosts are part of the future. » (Jacques Derrida)
« Any social state requires fictions. » (Paul Valéry)
group of sound artists who through network collaboration and performances are in the process of developing a series of acousmatic
episodes. SOBRALASOLAS! does not have preestablished scenario, nor is there a story to be told. It intercuts collected and improvised
sounds with the aim of recreating a new listening & soniferous environment that is both fictional and real, time-specific and site-
specific. This workprocess amplifies & probes the forgotten details of our everyday lives, mishaps, adventures, narratives and imagined
soundscapes. The group of artists are currently working and developing different methods of using remote sound recording and
collection via streaming using a remote platform of sound contributions, open microphones (or ‘webmikes’, a concept first used in the Locustream project by Locus Sonus) and file exchanges. Future episodes will explore various combinations of remote protocols using
composition, improvisation, and live, remote and local performances, performed by the six participants (mike-heads) who, whether
physically present or not, feed off one another’s audio environment and sonic reactions. SOBRALASOLAS! is an expression from Finnegans
Wake by James Joyce.
By Jérôme Joy, Caroline Bouisseau, Gregory Whitehead, Bjorn Erikkson, Kaffe Matthews and DinahBird.
The CD is published by Avatar/OHM editions, Quebec and has been presented at the following festivals : Premiered at SonoR Festival - JetFM, Lieu Unique, Nantes (F), 2007. (performed by Jérôme Joy, 80mn version) August 2007 : episode 1, Das Kleines Field Recording Festival, Berlin (G). (proposed by Björn Eriksson, and broadcasted in Second Life, Odyssey Island, 80mn version), October 2007 : episode 1, Festival Radiophonic Brussels (B), Chapelle des Brigittines. (performed and live spatialized by Jérôme Joy, and aired on Silence Radio, 60mn version), February 2008 : AV Festival Abroad Cast, Newcastle (UK). (aired by Dinahbird, short 30mn version), May 2008 : episode 1, performed and spatialised live by Jérôme Joy, Festival Indisciplines Sonores, Nice (F), July 2008 : episode 1, radio program, Festival EXPO, Brighton (UK), December 2008 : episode 1, radio program, FreeRadioSAIC, Chicago(USA), January 2009 : episode 1 (final version), performed and spatialised by Jérôme Joy, une Journée Sonore, Médiathèque de Mouans-Sartoux (F), August 2009 : cd release, Ohm Avatar Quebec.
Episode two was first performed for Art's Birthday at the Ohrenstrand Berlin and commissioned by Deutschland RadioKultur, Berlin.
Sobralasolas ! is produced in collaboration with Locus Sonus, The Thing NYC, nujus.net, creacast.com, and Radiowne.org.
