Wellington Calling - Alaejos

The second stage of the Wellington Calling project will be to collect sounds from the Alaejos in Spain. This will involve making contact with people in the town and others in the region to gather the sounds, these will be uploaded to freesound a website allowing users to contribute sounds from across the world to form a global database of recordings.

Along with collecting sounds from Alaejos, the opportunity to have a 'tube' set up in the town will be explored, this would enable sounds to be exchanged between Wellington and Alaejos, with the 'tubes' making a visual connection between the two sites.

Wellington Calling

I have been working on Portal in various forms over the last year and have now stripped the idea down to a participatory sound work. Now the work will involve collecting sounds from Wellington and Alaejos, which is the antipodean point to Wellington, and forming these into a soundscape.

I have identified a sight for the work at Queens Wharf, which is situated close to the waterfront and has a series of ventilation outlets running along it. These are perfect to use the sounds to be played from as they look the part and you can imagine the sounds coming from deep in the earth. 

The next stage will be finding potential collaborators to help develop the work and collecting sounds from across the region.

More Portals

It has been awhile since posting here but I have been developing new ideas and changing old ones, but even if some of these ideas do not develop any further I can keep a record of them here.

At present the idea for the project is to develop a community based project centred on Newtown in Wellington. A couple of reasons for this, one I have moved to Wellington, secondly Newtown sits above Alaejos in Spain. The map above shows Mein Street in Newtown and below is a street in Alaejos, which by my, not absolutely perfect working out and use of the antipodean map tool, are pretty close to matching each other on each side of the earth.

The project is still in the early planning stages but I have put some of the initial ideas on a Prezi here, mostly so I can keep track of the ideas and how they develop.

Portal on Prezi

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