Soundwalk Collective

Soundwalk Collective
Soundwalk Collective Team
Background information
Also known as	Soundwalk
Origin	New York City
Genres	Ambient Electronica Phonography Musique Concrète Spoken Word Experimental Poetry
Instruments	Electronics, Modular Synthesizers,
Years active	2000–present
Website	soundwalkcollective.com
Members	Stephan Crasneansck Simone Merli Kamran Sadeghi

Soundwalk Collective is a band based in New York City and Berlin.^[1][2] The members consisting of founder Stephan Crasneanscki, Simone Merli and Kamran Sadeghi formed in Manhattan to produce concept albums, sound installations and live performances.^[3][4][5] Soundwalk Collective won an Audie Awards in 2004, 2007 and 2009,^[6][7][8] and Dalton Pen Award in 2005.^[9]

The Collective specializes in producing audio based works focused on nature and other subjects.^[10] Conducting long periods of investigative travel and field work to collect source material from specific locations. Soundwalk Collective has recently collaborated with Berghain, Nan Goldin, Jean-Luc Godard and Patti Smith in a live homage to singer Nico "Killer Road".^[11][12][13]

Background

Soundwalk Collective, is an international musical-artist trio founded by Ukrainian-born American artist Stephan Crasneanscki.^[14] Soundwalk have been engaging with recordings, live performances, installations for over a decade.^[15] According to Ableton Soundwalk have been conducting expeditions to far-flung corners of the world to composed their music works from field recordings that strike a fascinating balance between documentation and abstraction.^[16]

Notable works

• Killer Road - a tribute album to singer Nico's tragic death in 1988. The album features Patti Smith reciting poems and lyrics over music from Soundwalk Collective. Killer Road was performed live in 2014.^[17][18]
• JUNGLE-IZED - a sound installation by Soundwalk Collective that featured wild environment of an Amazon rainforest onto eight blocks of Times Square. JUNGLE-IZED was meant to encourage a conversation with nature and to heighten awareness of the environmental impact of climate change.^[19][20]
• What We Leave Behind - a sound piece composed solely of unreleased fragments of sound that were recorded on the film sets of Jean-Luc Godard.^[21]
• Memoir of Disintegration - a sound composition, composed by David Wojnarowicz based on New York's homonymous and provocative correspondence that explored and captured existence of underground society of the 80's . Memoir of Disintegration featured Nan Goldin interpreting the most expressive excerpts of Wojnarowicz's writings.^[22]
• Sons Of The Wind - In Sons Of The Wind, The Soundwalk Collective followed the core of the Danube and the Roma, it has influences of Eastern and Western, specially from the Black Sea Delta to the river's source in Germany also from the ghettos to mahale, from the trail of the Sons of the Wind. Sons Of The Wind featured heart-rending songs, mournful violins, tinkling cimbaloms, the gutsy tones of brass bands.^[23]
• Ayahuasqueros - a radio essay based on a recordings from the Amazon, Peru written by Jeremy Narby along with Francisco López in 2012. Soundwalk Collective team traveled into the wild of the Peruvian Amazon to collect source materials of the chanting rituals of the ancient Ayahuasquero. They were called the Master Shaman, most of them were practitioner of plant medicine in ancient times.^[24]
• Medea - In the summer of 2011, the Soundwalk Collective started their long waiting mythical journey along with the coast of the Black Sea for Medea, the Soundwalk have collected fragments of voices, morse codes, music, and ambient sound, collage them into an artistic product and a work of sound art. The book Medea: Zag Zig Series features photographs of Stephan Crasneanscki and texts by Arthur Larrue.^[25]
• The Encounter - a radio essay featuring recordings from the Schwarzwald, Germany in 2010.".^[26]
• Kill the Ego^[27][28]
• 24 Hours: The Starck Mix, 24-hour sound collage and bespoke mix for Philippe Starck, distributed in partnership with Wallpaper (magazine) (2009).^[29]
• Chanel Mobile Art Soundscape Sound art project in collaboration with Chanel (2009) for the mobile art pavilion created by Zaha Hadid^[30]

Exhibits

• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris^[31]
• CTM Festival, Berlin^[32]
• Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin^[33]
• Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg^[34]
• Volksbühne, Berlin^[35]
• Union Chapel, Islington London^[36]
• MuCEM, Marseille^[37]
• Times Square, NYC^[38]
• Venice Biennial Of Art, Venice^[39]

Awards and honors

• Silver Radio Winner of International Radio Program Award 2016.^[40][41]
• Audie Award in 2004, 2007, 2009.
• Official Selection at Qwartz Electronic Music Awards, Paris.^[42]
• Dalton Pen Award in 2005.

References

1. "Soundwalk Collective". SoundCloud. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
2. "Soundwalk Collective – The Anniversary Series". Bbox Radio.
3. "Times Square Arts: JUNGLE-IZED: A Conversation with Nature". Times Square. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
4. "Jungle ized by Soundwalk Collective". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
5. "It's a jungle out there: interactive installation brings the Amazon to Times Square". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
6. "ORIGINAL WORK • The Bronx Soundwalk, by Soundwalk collective" (PDF). AudioFile (magazine) and Audie Awards. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
7. "The Audies® Finalists 2007" (PDF). AudioFile (magazine). Retrieved 11 August 2016.
8. "About Soundwalk Collective" (PDF). French Institute Alliance Française. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
9. "Artist Profile : Crossing the Line 2011: FIAF Fall Festival, Sept 17-Oct 16". www.fiaf.org (French Institute Alliance Française). Retrieved 11 August 2016.
10. "Patti Smith performs haunting unorthodox Nico tribute". Rolling Stone.
11. "Soundwalk Collective Live with Nan Goldin". Purple (magazine).
12. "Patti Smith Recites Nico Poetry and Lyrics on 'Killer Road' | SPIN". Spin (magazine). 16 June 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
13. "CULTURAL TOURISM : Soundwalk | Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe". European Cultural Route. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
14. "Biography of Stephan Crasneanscki". Dalbin ART X MUSIC. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
15. "In Performance: Le Son du Nous by Philippe Starck & Soundwalk (Paris)" "Contemporary Performance", 3/17/2010
16. "Soundwalk Collective: Sonic Nomads | Ableton". Ableton. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
17. "Patti Smith Recites Nico Poetry on "Killer Road"". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
18. "Patti Smith Performs Haunting, Unorthodox Nico Tribute". The Rolling Stones. 3 October 2014. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
19. Lim, Audrea (27 April 2016). "'Jungle-ized' Infuses Times Square With the Sounds of the Amazon". The Village Voice. Retrieved 8 July 2016.
20. Brait, Ellen (31 March 2016). "Jungle-ized is massive: artwork brings the Amazon to the concrete jungle". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
21. "Educate Your Ears: Soundwalk Collective | KALTBLUT Magazine". KALTBLUT Magazine. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
22. "Concert Spécial : Soundwalk Collective "Close To The Knives: A Memoir Of Disintegration" featuring Nan Goldin: Nuits sonores". Nuits Sonores. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
23. "Sons Of The Wind A sound journey along the Danube" (PDF). Asphalt Tango Records. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
24. "Ayahuasqueros show". Clocktower Productions. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
25. "Soundwalk Collective Medea ARTBOOK : D.A.P. 2012 Catalog Dis Voir Books Exhibition Catalogues 9782914563666". ArtBook.com. Distributed Art Publishers. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
26. "The Encounter show". Clocktower Productions. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
27. "Hors Pistes 2010: Un Autre Mouvement d’Images" Centre Pompidou, 2010. Accessed May 28, 2010.
28. ""Kill the Ego" began as a song, as an epic". Sound-Art-Text. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
29. "24 Hours: The Starck Mix", Wallpaper magazine, September 10, 2009. Accessed May 28, 2010.
30. "Chanel Mobile Art", Architonic, 2009. Accessed May 28, 2010.
31. "Soundwalk Collective exhibition at at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris". Centre Georges Pompidou. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
32. "CTM 2015 Opening Concert :: CTM Berlin - Festival for Adventurous Music and Art". CTM Festival. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
33. "VorigesNächstes Roly Porter // MFO, Soundwalk Collective FEED by Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art". Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
34. "MUDAM: Soundwalk Live!". Mudam. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
35. Berlin, Volksbühne. "Volksbühne Berlin". Volksbühne. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
36. "Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith in Barbican's Hall". Barbican Centre. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
37. "Soundwalk collective: MuCEM - Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée". Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
38. "Times Square Arts: Soundwalk Collective". Times Square New York City. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
39. "PERSOL : THE PHOENIX PROJECT" (in French). Unis dans le mouvement - Paris. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
40. "New York Festivals - 2016 World's Best Radio Programs:tm: Winners". New York Festivals Awards. Retrieved 22 July 2016.
41. "Jean-Luc Godard - Ursendung - What we leave behind". Deutschlandradio Kultur Radio (in German). Retrieved 28 June 2016.
42. "Songs were nominated in the category Qwartz Experimentation" (in French). Qwartz Electronic Music Awards. Retrieved 5 August 2016.

External links

Official website