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Back to the Islands - Manual for A New Neighbourhood . Archive #01

by SAMUEL THULIN

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Back to the Islands (2021) is a micro FM radio composition and performance bringing transformed field-recordings from the Magdalen Islands into Montreal’s Parc Frédéric-Back. It reflects on human relationships to one another and to multiple sites of environmental change.
The audio files here constitute 3 variations of Back to the Islands.
Track 1 is a binaural recording made by the artist (Samuel Thulin) during the performance of the work on October 3, 2021.
Track 2 is a stereo recording made by the curator (Eric Mattson) during the performance of the work on October 3, 2021.
Track 3 is the original composition that was transmitted to the portable radios carried by participants during the performance.
In the original performance, visitors were given portable radios to carry as we made our way through the Boisé section of the Parc Frédéric-Back. A limited-range transmission (Track 3) was diffused through the radios. As participants moved through the park the sonic space shifted depending on the relative positions of the multiple radios, and on the fluctuating signal strength of the transmission (audible in Tracks 1 & 2).
Using nearly obsolete technologies, the radio walk acted as an invitation to traverse an ex-quarry while listening to recomposed sounds of erosion from islands over 1000 km away.
This performance questioned our changing relationships with distance, space, and the fluctuations of environments.
Back to the Islands by Samuel Thulin is part of “Manual for a New Neighbourhood”, by curator Eric Mattson.

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released February 10, 2022

Composer : Samuel Thulin
Recording and Editing : Samuel Thulin, Eric Mattson
Curator, Manual for a New Neighbourhood : Eric Mattson

This is an audio archive, a testimony of an art work., not to be considered as a digital CD.

Manual for a New Neighbourhood . Archive #01
ORAL #82

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