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This special project was a commissioned collaboration with CBC Radio-Windsor reporter Shawn Hirtle*. The project, at its base, was a study + manipulation of the ambient sounds floating around the Windsor area, and a report about the ways in which field recordings can be used as a creative material. The reporter (Hirtle) and the artist (Laliberte) met on several occasions, negotiating a way to create a frame for useful sounds to build the project upon. As a part of the process, these conversations were recorded to be included in the story that Hirtle intended to generate . Finally, a city garbage run was chosen as a narrative template, and Hirtle administered a series of on-site natural recordings of his back alley in early morning. These recordings were passed on to Laliberte for deconstruction and used as the sole compositional source.The initial goal of this collaboration was to generate a process-probing radio story with an interconnected sound composition (which for purposes of broadcast was limited to 1.5 min in length). Both parts of the project were aired on CBC Radio in June 2002, and are now being made available to you here:
Prelude CBC WindsorPortrait Broadcast [4.39]
Portrait CBC WindsorPortrait Assembly [1.22]
To extend the project further, the source material has recently been opened up to the rest of the Collective, with the same basic set of rules put in place limiting compositional usage to sounds culled only from the source recordings, this time with the constricting length limitation lifted. The results of these ongoing Thinkbox member experiments will be posted here as they are completed:
Interpretations:
01 Bissonnette Interpret-v1: ??? [?.??]
02 Roy Interpret-v1: Garbage File [6.47]
03 McNamara Interpret-v1: Between [?.??]
(soon) 04 Laliberte Interpret-v1
(soon) 05 Van Loo Interpret-v1
* Please email Shawn Hirtle at CBC with your comments, I'm sure he'd love to hear what you have to say about his story and the project that evolved from it: <shawn_hirtle@cbc.ca>
