Petersburg and surroundings: sound cards
Anna Martynenko
Sound Museum
07.03.2020
If you stand at a certain point and listen carefully to what is happening around you, then the entire variety of the surrounding sound field can be represented as a graphical structure that uses two scales at once – the point scale and the coordinate scale, micro and macro. The micro-scale of the observation point is expanded to a 360-degree sound panorama, which is captured by the artist using graphics. The macro scale of a geographical map is compressed to the point of latitude and longitude coordinates.
Anya Martynenko fixes the structure. The dynamics of sound, coordinates relative to the listener, compressed into a point time" listening " space. In fact, this is what is commonly called graphic notation in music. The difference, however, is that the graphic notation of sound, which is still there, which just needs to happen, and the graphics Martynenko - the sound that has already happened, which is encoded in lines and points on the sheet, with the exact time of observation and geographical coordinates of the place.
Martynenko's graphics can (and should) be read as a certain kind of text, producing a "reverse scan" of the sound picture, while focusing solely on structural parameters. This is exactly what the musicians participating in the project: Daria Barabanova, Victoria Morgunova, Maxim Posin and Sofia Skobeleva do, presenting their sound interpretations of graphics. The" encryption " of the signal, the encoding of the sound field performed by the artist, continues as the process of decoding and substituting new signifiers.
At the opening of the exhibition, there will also be a multi-channel sound concert, during which you can hear music created by the project participants based on the artist's "sound cards".