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W4490
25.05.2011
TerraLoop - W.A.Davison
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  • William A. Davison is a multi-disciplinary artist and composer living and working in Toronto, Canada. Through his solo sound and performance project Songs of the New Erotics, Davison has been applying classic experimental music techniques to conceptual/pe ...

    William A. Davison is a multi-disciplinary artist and composer living and working in Toronto, Canada. Through his solo sound and performance project Songs of the New Erotics, Davison has been applying classic experimental music techniques to conceptual/performative projects since the early 90s. In 2007, Davison used 1/4” audio tape to physically and audibly create a “psychogeographic connect-the-dots map” of Toronto's Trinity Bellwoods Park. His “TerraLoop” project proposes an audio tape loop consisting of approximately 40,075,160 meters of 1/4” (or wider) audio tape formed in a loop around the circumference of the Earth at the Equator. Recording stations would be established at various points along the tape's path to record sound onto the tape as it moves and a playback station would broadcast the resulting audio loop via internet. With each revolution of the loop more sound would be added to the tape. At a tape speed of 38.1 cm/second, one complete turn of the loop around the Earth should take approximately 1,218 days. Some technical and/or logistical problems may need to be resolved. More information at www.recordism.com

    William A. Davison is a multi-disciplinary artist and composer living and working in Toronto, Canada. Through his solo sound and performance project Songs of the New Erotics, Davison has been applying classic experimental music techniques to conceptual/pe ...

    William A. Davison is a multi-disciplinary artist and composer living and working in Toronto, Canada. Through his solo sound and performance project Songs of the New Erotics, Davison has been applying classic experimental music techniques to conceptual/performative projects since the early 90s. In 2007, Davison used 1/4” audio tape to physically and audibly create a “psychogeographic connect-the-dots map” of Toronto's Trinity Bellwoods Park. His “TerraLoop” project proposes an audio tape loop consisting of approximately 40,075,160 meters of 1/4” (or wider) audio tape formed in a loop around the circumference of the Earth at the Equator. Recording stations would be established at various points along the tape's path to record sound onto the tape as it moves and a playback station would broadcast the resulting audio loop via internet. With each revolution of the loop more sound would be added to the tape. At a tape speed of 38.1 cm/second, one complete turn of the loop around the Earth should take approximately 1,218 days. Some technical and/or logistical problems may need to be resolved. More information at www.recordism.com