The video work Vondelpark (2013) is a sound composition aligned with an visual image. It is chronological edited footage of a live happening without any additional sound. The performance took place at the Vondelpark in Amsterdam during the SOTU festival 2013.
When listening and looking at this footage think of Brian Eno's text on Ambient Music. The artist is performing along side the existing, being part of a place and the sound environment, influencing an atmosphere without overamplification. "Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular, it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."
This work stresses the mode of attentive listening. It consists out of recorded material of an improvisation in the making. In a way it is a collaborative work between the artist and the environment. An action in an ever changing soundscape while moving through the park. It reveals the beauty of chance and indetermination.
Below you find some photos and a link to an audio clip. The photos are stills from the video, the audio clip is taken from the video as well.
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