location: stockholm


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building berlin abstract models - research about the question: how do I stand/sit/are when I listen to noise in the city?

Alex 1
- sitting on a bench

Alex 2
- standing beside a metro exit/entry

Alex Tram
- walking beside a moving tram

Café
- sitting on a chair with the coffee on the table beside

Strasse
- walking beside a wall on the sidewalk

U Bahn 1
- standing on the platform in the subway station

U Bahn 2
- sitting on a bench in the subway, looking towards the drivung direction
- leaning on the wall in the metro

Schnee gehen
- walking in the snow in between trees beside the water


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new postive noise:

I like all the sounds of the city as long as they are not disturbed by cars and traffic sound. That's why the best moment in the city is the Sunday morning. I don't understand why our contemporary society accepts the killing dominance of the traffic, in everything, sound, view, smelling, accesibility,... . I love the sound of a bird in the city because it is exceptional, there are bird but it is if they don't sing, or the sound of happy children who are playing, something difficult to find nowadays. I suppose everything that has a human sound. Silence, clinking of cups of coffee, people speaking and laughing.

I suppose that is why many people like the Historical Centres in a city, or the parks, or the riversides. Places where the dominance of the traffic noise is not that much.


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inspiration link today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy5nwV7vrdw


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noise pod picture today:


© by the owner

location: stockholm


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i met nina today. was a really good meeting. gave me some new points of views but also confirmation in my ideas:

noise:
outside, in the city, from long distance, movement, traffic, people, happenings, public spaces, way to destination, avoid / appreciate noise, living in the city, noise synphony

pod:
inside-outside, soft-hard, sitt/lay/stand, rubber-felt, shape after function and ergonomy inside, light: deep-midrange-high, choose noise after need in the moment, choose by testing what is needed


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Squash! Axel wins always, bas***d!


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meeting with my student group: mariella and sofia.
good conversation about their thesis but also mine. also taöked about anotaded bilbiograhphy which we have to write soon.


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anoterad grafi:

book:
svenska ljudlandskap:
- Stadens Ljud


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inspiration link today:
http://www.kulturhuset.stockholm.se/default.asp?id=5760&domain=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kulturhuset.stockholm.se%2F&url=default.asp%3Fid%3D31395


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noise pod picture today:


© by the owner

location: stockholm


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had meeting with karin this morning. about our report for our diploma project. was good to hear how we have to write it and how we gonna find them in our library afterwords.


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meeting with anna. some new infos about anotated bilbiograhpy


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starting to figure out sit/lay postions for my pod.


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gonna meet nina tomorrow


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gonna make models of different pods tomorrow


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new positive noise:

well,
i love when it's raining and outside my univrsity there are some roofs made in tinplate...overthere you can listen an amazing melody of the water mixed with that material!!!.
and also when I love when i'm near the central train station I can always hear the sound of a train that is going away and a dog that is barking to someone.

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inspiration link today:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x46seu_jean-tinguely-1990-retable-de-labon_creation

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noise pod picture today:


© by the owner

location: berlin


was walking in the city exploring noise sources and recordning.

- café
- transportation
- traffic
- people

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new positive noise:
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train traffic

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recordings today :
- walking in snow
- turkish market
- bar
- alexanderplatz
- drummer
- tram
- subway
- piano player

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inspiration link today:
www.ubu.com

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noise pod picture today:


© by the owner

location: berlin


was walking in the city exploring noise sources and recordning.

- restaurant
- transportation
- traffic
- people

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new positive noise:


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STEPS:

-in the "Holy Week Processions", at Easter

-during a General Strike -some years ago there was one, and there wasn't any traffic, the sound of the steps capture my attention.

-my own steps when I arrive home late at night

-a girl with high heels



BELLS: Not only from the churches but as well the glockenspiels of the municipal buildings, amazing in Holland!



The SIRENS of the boats just after 12am on New Year's Eve.



The SOUTHERN WIND in the street behind calle Cervantes, in Santander, Spain. My bedroom during my childhood looked to that street and when the wind from the south blew, it made a "canyon effect" and it snorted, I could hear as well the windows and the doors slamming.



The sound made by the men who used to clean the shoes in the streets and bars, the sound of their hand hitting the surface in order to apply the shoe cream and the sound of the brush through the leather surface. I used to go with my grandfather to the shoe-shine man at the entrance of the tunnel, and I remembered that feeling during my trip to Bolivia, but still in Madrid and Barcelona you can find them.



The sound of the DOMINO at the bars



The effect of the snow, that absorbs the noises



An anecdote: 20 years ago I spent a couple of months in Barcelona and I rented an apartment in a wide avenue, the traffic was very loud. One night, I was almost sleeping when suddenly I woke up startled thinking that the world had stopped and that the trumpets of the Apocalypses would started to sound... This momentary silence was just caused by the coincidence of various traffic lights...


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The sound of a coffee machine making an esspresso; the low rumble of people's voices in a cafe; the sound of a helicopter flying overhead; the sound of traffic and cars... to know your in a city and a place full of life. The abence of this (ie. living in telefonplan) makes it really noticable when you go back to living in a city and the noise of peoples happening's make you feel alive and part of a city's essence. That there are things hapening around you that you are also part of.


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recordings today :
- road traffic
- church
- subway
- grocery store
- ice hacker
- shawarma
- coffee store outside
- people

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inspiration link today:
http://www.soundcities.com/

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noise pod picture today:


© by the owner

location: stockholm and berlin


got my jacket from my tailor. finnaly I can close my zipper again.


had a good talk with anna. gave me some hope and passion hints. good ideas what i can do with my first destination: Berlin!
wohoo! amazing city


on the way to skavsta/sthlm airpoirt.
I hate ryanair. but the ticket was just so cheap. 12€ can you believe it?


landend in berlin. its warm here. will go to my friends at blücherstrasse in kreuzberg. its so beautiful there.

IfaP - Initiative für arbeitnehmerkompatible Partyzeiten

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recordings today :
- walking at school
- ryanair
- tekno club

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inspiration link today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElJFYwRtrH4&feature=player_embedded


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noise pod picture today:



© by the owner

location: stockholm


stockholm snow destroys meetings! will meet nina next week.

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books:

noise design - architectural modelling and the aesthetics of urban acoustic space

noise - the political economy of music

sound art - beyond music, between categories

svenska ljudlanskap - om hörseln, bullret och tysnaden





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