The main focus of Andrew Pierre Hart’s work is the symbiotic relationship between sound and painting. His practice is an ongoing rhythmic research and play of improvised and spontaneous generative processes, through various mediums: sound, video, performance, found object and image, language, photography and installation, and themes of: improvisation, collective memory, cross-modality, spatialisation, musicality and rhythmology.
A focus of Andrews presentation was built around improvisation and performance. One of these performances, in collaboration with Shabaka Hutchings (of Sons of Kramer, and The Comet Is Coming) was improvised over a interviewed man.
I often find that when paired with music over the top, we start to see the rhythms of everyday speech in a more pronounced way. Some favourite examples of music that include field recorded speech include the piece “Sleep” by the band Godspeed you! Black Emperor, as well as the music of Boards of Canada, who repurpose sound from old VHS tapes. When creating music, I often like to use a VST plugin that streams digital radio right into Ableton Live. This means I can access streamed sounds from across the world. I sometimes use talking based radio stations, and I find it interesting that what the station is talking about seems to change meaning when sounds and music are played underneath (or on top of).
This got me thinking about an album by Jan Jelinek called Zwichen (between). Here is a description of the album from its Bandcamp page.
‘Zwischen brings together twelve sound poetry collages using interview answers by public figures. Each collage consists of the brief moments between the spoken words: silences, pauses for breath and hesitations in which the interviewees utter non-semantic sound particles. These voice collages also control a synthesizer, creating electronic sounds that overlay and merge with the voices to make twelve acousticstructures.’
