(video stills/images by I— fairuz —I)

Belgian artist Herman Asselberghs - whose work focuses on the questioning of border areas between sound and image, world and media, poetry and politics - created a new video entitled After Empire. During the month of May a soundtrack has been created to enforce the specific image language that has been used for this video artwork.

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A first test version of the installation The Mamori Expedition will be presented during the exhibition Musik für Barbaren und Klassiker at Netwerk Arts Centre. This installation translates an expedition through the Brazilian Amazon forest to the scale of the exhibition space. With the use of a special tool the visitor can dive into another sonic world.
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Many thanks to Roman Kirschner, Stefaan Viaene, Johan Vandermaelen for their support & Dan Belasco Rogers for lending me his GPS device.

Exhibition Opening _  Sat 24th April 2010_8.30pm
Sat 24th April → Sat 12th June 2010

Co-production Netwerk Arts Centre

Plan b are Sophia New and Dan Belasco Rogers. For some years now they have been creating GPS-guided audiowalks in different cities. This time they were invited on the Buda-island in Kortrijk for the creation of a new audiowalk in collaboration with sound artist Els Viaene. Into The Light Of The Night leads you round the island at night and let you experience  a day in your life and your life in a day. Everything is recorded in binaural so people can experience the walk in a 3D sound environment.

The project was presented the first time in May 2009. We continued working in October and the walk will be finished next month and have his final premiere at the Happy New Festival the 24th of April. The walk will be permanently available.

Buda-productie www.budakortrijk.be
More info www.planbperformance.net

For two weeks long together with a group of 5 other sound artists, we scanned the Amazonian Rainforest with our ears and microphones, guided by Francisco Lopez, Slavek Kwi and the local community of Lake Mamori. These recordings resulted in a first sound composition presented at Lake Mamori and later on an installation will be created in which the sound of the rainforest will be researched in a vertical perspective.
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