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Xenia Ramm, a Danish artist educated at The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, interviews creative colleagues in different locations such as galleries, a darkroom or an old water reservoir. We talk about all kinds of creative and cultural work, from conceptual thinking to practical techniques and industry-specific insights. We bring the listeners with us into the space, via ambient sound recordings and verbal descriptions of the places we are in and the artworks we are talking about. Every episode features different guests and topics, with terms and technical details explained in a way that all conversations can be enjoyed by fellow artisans or without previous knowledge on the subject.
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// Autumn update: new episodes coming soonish! //
Xenia Ramm, a Danish artist educated at The Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, interviews creative colleagues in different locations such as galleries, a darkroom or an old water reservoir. We talk about all kinds of creative and cultural work, from conceptual thinking to practical techniques and industry-specific insights. We bring the listeners with us into the space, via ambient sound recordings and verbal descriptions of the places we are in and the artworks we are talking about. Every episode features different guests and topics, with terms and technical details explained in a way that all conversations can be enjoyed by fellow artisans or without previous knowledge on the subject.
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For this milestone episode I thought it was a good time to check in with myself, and try another round of interviewing myself - exactly one year since the first attempt. And when I talk to myself we never end, so this is a conceptual episode in several chapters. I did two long interviews with myself in my studio in Helsinki, one in the daytime and one in the middle of the night, and then I edited parts of these recordings together as one long conversation - it ended up so long that I had to divide it into several episodes, so here is the first part of a long talk between me, myself and I about our master's thesis project The Silence of Sea Tower, an ambient noise sound art project that I self-published on cassette tape this Spring.
In this chapter I invite you into the magical realism of my studio, where I have been living and recording the sound of my surroundings the last year. I discuss the myth of neutral, objective field recording, the personality traits of kitchen appliances and the voices of tube lights, and reflect on my own role as performer in my everyday soundscape. I also explain how it feels to live in secrecy in my workspace, how I navigate the shared sounding space of the building, and how my way of listening to myself and my surroundings has changed during this project.
For inquiries about purchasing The Silence of Sea Tower on cassette tape, send an email to verbal.art@protonmail.com
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