What if we could find in every city a "Museum of sounds" in the landscape where people could immerse themselves in some of the most inspiring work of sound artists from the present and past? I have started to create sound walks dedicated to the installation of some of my favorite sound artists (see the page MUSEUM OF SOUNDS for more info). In Amsterdam, in the beautiful Sarphatipark, one of nicest parks in town according to many, I have created a sound walk that is a tribute to American sound artist David Schafer . In the blue areas (see map) people in Amsterdam can now enjoy again his sound installation "The Intruder/De Indringer" (2004). David Schafer is a visual artist who works in multiple forms of production, including sculpture, sound, performance, and works on paper. His work is concerned with the structure, translation, and intelligibility of language, and the combining of sculpture, sound, and text. His discursive projects embody subjects from cultural memory that are both theoretical and idiosyncratic. Los Angeles, CA. In 2004 The Intruder/De Indringer was in Middelburg. Mounted on the exterior of the 15th century deVleeshal was a large PA speaker-horn that emitted in both Dutch and English a short Dutch children's story approximately 10 minutes long. The story was sounded once a day after the 1:15 pm bells at a volume that could be heard just out of the public square that the deVleeshal faces. A female voiceover from Los Angeles read the English version, and a male Dutch voiceover read the Dutch version. The story is from a book by Piet Prins, a Dutch author, and the story deals with the subject of oppression and ethics during the Reformation within a typical narrative structure. On the interior exhibition space of deVleeshal there were two other works. One a freestanding medium sized sculpture fabricated of small aluminum I-beams bolted and riveted together and whose orientation and composition recall a late modernist formalist style of expression. The third element was a wall-mounted digital C-print whose image derived from the sculpture itself as it is modeled in a 3D comic book style. The fourth element of the project involved an 18" x 24" poster that used a double image of the deVleeshal tower. The poster was put up around the town of Middelburg as part of the exhibition. The Intruder/De Indringer by David Schafer (performed in 2004) Edited & mixed by Mark Wheaton at Catasonic, LA English voice over: Josie Roth, Dutch voice over: Erik Grouwstra (Description and info: UbuWeb) If you visit Amsterdam or it happens for you to live there, you can download the walk https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/tk5V2k0gZfmP6cZv or Scan the QRcode.
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