Odd sympathies is now live

This week the Odd Sympathies website has gone live.
On the site you can listen to sections of the work, download the score and map to follow the walk on site and find out more about the piece we created in collaboration with composer John Metcalf.



The site was designed by Remote Location

Inspiring cities

We are delighted to have Odd sympathies featured on Inspiring cities website. You can have a look at the article here.
Thanks to Kerry Spring for her review.

"Inspiring Cities is about international and interdisciplinary best practice in urban development. It is about the exchange of ideas and changing the way people think about the city."

ambassador

Last week John Metcalf (who collaborated with us last year on Odd sympathies) was made a Creative Wales Ambassador.


Photo: Arts Council Wales

Congratulations!

Odd sympathies

Now that the last performances have been completed, we are working with John Metcalf on the next stage: a series of miniatures sound bites of the walks, and a map/score to allow anyone to experience one of the walks.
We also got some pictures of the last performances back from the photographer (Stuart Bunce):




the socks in the trousers are for the sound recording -so is the recordist- not part of the uniform

Odd sympathies

We finished the last performances of Odd Sympathies last week-end.
An extract from the press release:
"Imagine attending a concert but instead of sitting or standing, you walk. Imagine the music you listen to captured from sounds that already exist around you as you walk through the concert. Imagine the concert is slightly different each time you experience it because there may be unexpected sounds along the way. Sans façon and composer John Metcalf have collaborated to create Odd Sympathies, three new sonic pieces that capture the sounds of the city of Cardiff and together form what we believe is the first sonic map of the city.
Drawing inspiration from the iconic work 4’33’’ Silence by John Cage, Odd Sympathies is a series of carefully composed sound maps of Cardiff that take in some of the fascinating landmarks in the city and open the ears to a sound world that is in many ways as dense and magical as a rainforest."

and a short interview on Radio Wales Arts Show with Nicola Heywood Thomas available until june 12:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/noscript.shtml?/radio/aod/wales_aod.shtml?wales/artsshow