Artist: Various
Title: Cityscapes: Design by Sound
Label: Perspektif
Format: Box set containing 1 CD and 2 journals
CD Duration: 50:04
Released: Nov 26, 2009
Price: SGD60.00
Inventory Status: Available
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CD Tracklisting:
1. Where Am I – Johnson Zhang / Teng Kwee (5:11)
2. +|- – sonicbrat / Steven (5:22)
3. Think Feel Know – Randolf Arriola / Steven (4:42)
4. Our Prompter is Spiked – mux / Iskandar (4:22)
5. 16-Bit by Beat – Kamal Lufti / Suhaime (9:36)
6. Jumari the Masseuse Plays Guitar in an Imaginary Field – Mark Wong / Jumari (7:28)
7. Darkness in our Light – Eswandy Sarip / Muliana (10:25)
8. You Got That, Right? – Michael Fakesch (2:59)
Mastered by Darren Ng
Perspektif Media Release:
Perspektif is proud to debut its first edition for the Cityscapes audio journal series, Design by Sound, to be held in conjunction with the Singapore Design Festival 2009.
In collaboration with the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH), Cityscapes explores the influences of sound on perception, behaviour, orientation, technology, space, time, mobility and movement to the visually handicapped. Singapore-based sound practitioners and visually impaired participants from the SAVH come together for a first-ever sonic collaboration. A synergism of two seemingly different, but not entirely separate cosmos, transpiring into a subtle recreation of the journeys undertaken by the visually impaired in Singapore through sound.Cityscapes offers fresh insights into the place-making projects of the visually impaired, opening up possibilities for redefining the relationship between sound and design.
Brilliant crafted and designed by Belgian-born design, Tom Merckx, the limited 100 audio journals, Cityscapes: Design by Sound, showcases the musical finesse of 7 Singapore-based sound practitioners – sonicbrat, Randolf Arriola, mux, Eswandy Sarip, Kamal Lufti, Johnson Zhang and Mark Wong. More significantly, the audio journal features renowned sound designer, Michael Fakesch, one half of Germany’s premier mercurial electronic act, Funkstörung, in the form of a bonus sound piece, complete with rare insights and documentations of his creative approach towards sound design.
A portion of the profits from the sales of the journals will be given to the SAVH.
Audio Samples
2. +|- – sonicbrat / Steven (5:22)
4. Our Prompter is Spiked – mux / Iskandar (4:22)
7. Darkness in our Light – Eswandy Sarip / Muliana (10:25)
8. You Got That, Right? – Michael Fakesch (2:59)
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