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Less is Sound I PS011

by DJ GÄP / Ami Yamasaki / Fero Király

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Less is Sound - derived from:
‘Less is More’
‘Les’ - Slovak word for ‘Forest’

“A picture is worth a thousand words, but a soundscape is worth a thousand pictures.” – Bernie Krause, composer and soundscape ecologist

“Les” – Slovak word for “a forest”


Japanese experimental vocalist Ami Yamasaki and two Slovak producers and sound artists Fero Király and DJ GÄP join forces on the latest Proto Sites LP – the first one in six years – connecting the dots between soundscape ecology, participatory performance, hydroponics posthuman music and ASMR.

The backbone of this LP is a recording of a site-specific sound-art gathering that took place in various hidden outdoor locations around Bratislava, Slovakia at the height of summer 2021.

Three post-anthropocentric performances blurred the boundaries between the performer and the audience, the creator and the active listener, the human and the more-than-human world.

According to a global seismological study (published in the journal Science Today), the first lockdown was the quietest period in recorded history. For a while we became sonic tourists in our own surroundings, listening to the places that in the face of climate breakdown and predatory real estate intentions are as fragile as ever.
The aim of this project was to amplify the soundscape of these special places - their natural music, which is usually hidden under layers of visual stimuli, beneath the water level or under the noise pollution of the surrounding city.

The participatory acoustic sound performance titled 36 ďatľov (36 woodpeckers) took place at dusk in the forest near Micher estuary – home to field sparrows, green warblers, tree larks and about ninety other species of birds. Written and conducted by DJ GÄP it foregrounded a rich spectrum of local biophonies within the wide “silent” gaps of a minimalist stripped-down composition for thirty-six audience members - turned percussionists - turned black woodpeckers.

In the real-time headphone concert Danube Walk With Me, The Danube river and its underwater soundscape became both a medium as well as the starting point for a live experiment by the Slovak minimalist turned algoraver Fero Király.

Two pianos in quarter-tone tuning and a hydrophonic microphone on a fishing rod were utilized for catching – among other things – foreign radio broadcasts (probably of Romanian origin) and some other more inconspicuous details. The Danube river near Bratislava has a characteristic sound: just above the surface, you can hear the hissing of released carbonate salts, which this “mirror of the sky” has tied up on its way from the Alps.

Elsewhere at dawn at the Devín quarry a hybrid cross-location soundwalk Asking The Forest If That Book Could Go Home by the Japanese vocalist Ami Yamasaki transformed a hidden peninsula into a dense oak-birch-beech forest in Tatsuno macho, Nagano prefecture, Japan. In addition to working with field recordings and ASMR-like fragments, Yamasaki used her main instrument - her vocal cords. In this hyperreal wilderness, predators of the boreal forest meet birds of the subtropics - their cries, songs and calls bouncing off the broad leaf trees that reflect the sound as if it was recorded in some sort of natural music hall.

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released September 30, 2022

2022 I Proto Sites

DJ GÄP – 36 ďatľov (Radio Edit)
participatory sound performance written by DJ GÄP and performed by DJ GÄP, good friends, new friends and local inhabitants of the woods around Micher estuary, Bratislava on September 19th 2021
recorded by Jonáš Gruska

Fero Király – Danube Walk With Me
hydrophonic composition performed and recorded by Fero Király at the shores of Danube close to Micher estuary on September 19th 2021

Ami Yamasaki – Asking The Forest If That Book Could Go Home
recorded by Ami Yamasaki and local inhabitants of the forest in Tatsuno machi, Nagano prefecture, Japan
performed at Gronársky point, Bratislava on September 18th 2021

Graphic design: Matúš Hnát
Photos: Nina Pacherová, Lenka Rišková

The project was supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council and The Foundation of the City of Bratislava.

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