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Artist: The Folk Songs Project |
| Exhibition: Special Reconnaissance |
| Date: November 09 2006 - January 19 2007 |
Curator: Dylan J. Gauthier
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Bio:
The Folk Songs Project is a transnational arts initiative set up and run by Alastair Dant, Tom Davis and David Gunn. Combining interactive art with local participation and extensive field recording, the project explores identity and the urban experience in cities and regions around the world. Their work has been featured in Time Out New York, Wired Magazine, The Wire, Le Monde, NPR and BBC. It has also be featured as part of a Torontos Images Festival and GROK, an upcoming project for Rhizome.org, (the online arm of New Yorks New Museum of Contemporary Art), highlighting the best in contemporary digital art.
The project was initiated in 2005 with Folk Songs for the Five Points, completed as part of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum's Digital Artist in Residence Programme. Upcoming projects including a cd release of "Folk Songs for the Five Points" (see www.tenement.org for more details), a new project combining live performance and community-generated recordings in five cities across Portugal and a newly commissioned installation for the second phase of Manchester : Peripheral, to be exhibited at the Manchester International Festival 2007. Learn more at www.folksongsproject.com.
Manchester : Peripheral (phase one), is the second installment in The Folk Songs Project series. Using an interactive SoundMap of Manchester (UK), users remix a wide variety of field recordings to create their own soundtrack to contemporary urban life. Following three weeks of fieldwork with communities around Manchester and chance encounters on the streets, the project team collected a diverse array of sounds for users to remix - from accapella raps on the streets of Moss Side to industrial machinery, from Somalian folk chanting to birdsongs and Persian poetry.
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