“A Landscape of Events” is a piece heavily influenced by Paul Virilio’s homonymous book. The piece is a sonic reflection on how the perception of time is distorted by the pacing of life portrayed in contemporary media, always in constant acceleration. The piece, like the book, presents an amalgam of seemingly disjointed content, or “sets of contradictions in an accelerated and miniaturized world” (Moran, 2004). “A Landscape of Events” was composed at the Virginia Center for Computer Music using ambisonics and Ville Pulkki’s Vector Based Amplitude Panning for the multichannel spatialization.
Juan Carlos Vasquez is an award-winning composer, sound artist, and researcher from Colombia. His electroacoustic music works are performed constantly around the world and have been premiered in 28 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. Vasquez has received creation grants and/or commissions by numerous institutions and his research has been published by the Computer Music Journal and presented at many conferences concerned with digital technology and music.
The Sound Travels Online Album #1 is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for the 2020 edition of the annual Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art. The contents of the album are curated by NAISA from an international call for submissions on the theme "Transformations."
Editions 9 through 14 of the Deep Wireless Compilation of Radio and Transmission Art are available on NAISA's Soundcloud site. Previous compact disc editions (1-8) can be heard online at https://naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/
Copyright of the works belongs to the artists who have agreed to have their work on NAISA's Soundcloud page.
Note that Sound Travels Online Album is not available for download. Community and public radio or internet broadcasters should contact NAISA directly for access to the works for airplay. Contact naisa at naisa dot ca for more information.
Artistic Director: Darren Copeland
Executive Director: Nadene Thériault-Copeland
