I recorded in the lobby of the Zetra Ice Rink on an early afternoon in April when there were no visitors, only staff. The room noise is energetic here, choppy and thick rather than calm and infinite. Construction noise bursts into the interior space. However, the microphone of the recording device picks it up as it is: equal in volume to the room noise. The noise of the empty room is deafening, almost a cacophony. Sonically, this is not a bastion-under-siege-by-the-world-outside but more like a force that is molding the urban environment to its will. Throughout, CBS broadcasts images for American audiences that draw upon the symbolism of the Sarajevo Olympics, attaching calls for aid, to cease fighting, or to remember the past and displaying imagery of war and devastation focused especially on the symbolic dichotomy of the past glory of the 1984 Olympic sites and their present destruction (Eastman, Brown and Kovatch 1996).
-
contents
- Overview
- Catalog
- Street Protest, December 2018
- Hotel Slavija, March 2019
- Inside the Avala Telecommunications Tower (at the end of a suburban bus line), March 2019
- Underneath Terazije Square, October - December 2018
- Hotel Jugoslavija, February 2019
- Zenica (at the end of a regional bus line), April 2019
- Glavna željeznička stanica u Sarajevu, April 2019
- Zetra Ice Rink, Anteroom, April 2019
- Momo and Uzeir, Elevator Lobby, April 2019
- Holiday Inn, April 2019
- Kosovo Polje (at the end of a regional rail line), March 2019
- Promenade (Metabolism), March 2019
- Pristina Train Station (defunct), March 2019
- Grand Hotel Pristina (projection room and other spaces), March 2019
- Theodore Teichman
-
navigation
-
abstract
This is an archive of places, but it is even more an archive of the materiality of listening. This constitutes a larger inquiry and fascination with the listening as performance and the various “instruments” and “scores” that shape or encode this sonic event of the performance of the image. In particular, this project uses this arts-based research approach to engage critically with the concept of "The Transition," which has shaped the geography and imaginary of Ex-Yugoslavia. This is a collection of recordings made and then composed into soundscapes between September 2018 and May 2019 in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Kosovo. Through these techniques I propose an approach soundscape practices to engage materially the constitutive world of listening and the narration of time-worlds.
- Theodore Teichman - Listening against "The Transition" - 2022
- Meta
- Comments
- Terms