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Thinking About A New World

A conversation with Paffard Keatinge-Clay (AA dipl. 1949), recorded prior to his AA lecture in November 2008 on the occasion of the 'Le Corbusier at the AA' Symposium & Exhibition. Keatinge-Clay takes us through his spirited AA student days and early practice, with entertaining and inspiring accounts of how it was that he came to work for and to know Erno Goldfinger, Sigfried Gideon, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. Inclusive of a story of the pilgrimmage, with 2 AA student friends, to Le Corbusier's studio and house where they did not meet Le Corbusier himself but instead his gracious wife who invited them to have cooked eggs and explore the house to their hearts' delight. Broadcast with thanksto Paffard Keatinge-Clay and to Edward Bottoms (AA Archives). This recording is the first in a series of oral history interviews planned by the AA Archives documenting the AA in the 1940's and 1950's. #

Play 70:49 min, AAIR 21/2/2009

Bedford Square

Bedford Square Garden is in the Bloomsbury district of the Borough of Camden in London, England. It is a private park requiring a key to enter and exit. Contact microphones were attached to the fence surrounding the park. The resulting field recording is not altered other than some equalization. The primary sound is the gate shutting as key holders enter and exit. The fence faintly transmits other ambient sounds of pedestrians and traffic surrounding the park. Most people don’t have keys and simply sit surrounding the park, leaving it empty most of the time. 'Bedford Square' is a 30 minute field recording made for radio broadcast on the Architectural Association Independent Radio (AAIR). Recorded in July, 2008. Steve Bates currently lives in Montréal, Canada where he is an MFA candidate in Studio Arts at Concordia University. He works on music, radio, and installation projects with an specific interest in experimental forms of organizing sound as improvisation and as composition. Founder and 8-year director of the sound art festival, Send + Receive: A Festival of Sound, in Winnipeg, Canada, Bates' recent collaborations include 100 Lines with jake moore, and soundFIELD, an outdoor installation at the International Garden Festival, Reford Gardens/Jardins de Métis, with landscape architect Douglas Moffat. #

Play 30:00 min, Steve Bates 5/2/2009

La Meticulosa

La Vieja Trova Santiaguera singing La Meticulosa (the meticulous). Clarita is sympathetic, synthetic and meticulous... Whether you can understand it or not, always pleasant. #

Play 4:26 min, Lara Lesmes 23/1/2009

Interview with Junya Ishigami

Junya Ishigami, architect whose projects include the recently completed KAIT Studio for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology, was the 2008 exhibitor in the Japanese pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. Interviewed here by Ben Reynolds and Valle Medina (www.palacepalace.com ). Recorded at the Japan Institute of Architects, Tokyo, 22 October 2008. #

Play 7:46 min, Palace 17/1/2009

Send & Receive

I always wondered what kind of sound would be heard whilst on its journey when you either send or receive an e-mail or transfer data across a Network. The idea first presented itself when an IT friend of mine was chatting about his workplace and that I should pop along one day and record some of the sounds . Not wanting to let the opportunity pass me by, I spend a day, armed with a number of recording tools sitting in an enormous network server room. My initial thought was that of complete shock! I couldn't quite get over how noisy the space was, I foolishly always imagined that it was going to be really very quiet, with just the discreet sound of a small fan and the occasional bleep from time to time. The noise was mainly due to the number the cooling fans required. So never really wanting to capture the sounds of cooling fans, I would focus on the light sources from any LED light by using a number of different photocells and by using a specially constructed audio/ network cable that allowed me to connect to both the server and my laptop at the same time, where I wrote a MSP patch that recorded to one soundcard when data was being Sent, and to another soundcard when the data was being Received. This method enabled me to kill two birds with one stone and allowed me the option for working with either sound source whilst the data was being transmitted. The final piece is comprised from 16 different servers, and from 1200 different ports, collecting close to 16,000 sounds . The first section of the piece are the sounds heard when the data was being 'Sent' and the second half of the piece is the perceived sound of the data being 'Received'. Markus Jones #

Play 13:12 min, Markus Jones 17/1/2009