Martin Ožvold: Noisekins / A tribute to a stray
Errors, mistakes, faux pas and trash. I'm fascinated to a stray, I'm fascinated to unwanted. To the endless shapes of its beauty.
Martin Ožvold says: “To me, Noisekins completes a more than a year-long project of generating and collecting sound material by synthetic processes or by field recordings connected with my research stay in the Hague in Netherlands. The material of the composition is based on sounds belonging to the non-places around the Hague’s main railway station and on electroacoustically manipulated recordings of “the unwanted artefacts or the recording media,” such as the noise produced by a vinyl record, by a tape recorder or by side effects connected with recording, such as feedback, which is the case here.
‘Non-places’ is a neologism introduced by French anthropologist Marc Augé describing transient places where people remain anonymous; places which, according to his definition, are not significant enough to be regarded as places.
Noises and mistakes represent the traces of the activity and transmission of sound information or generally any human activity. They are omnipresent but generally they are not perceived as sound information. Noiselets is a sound experiment connecting, articulating and mutating objects, space and processes of the margin of individual interest, in nobody’s territories, which, however, we find in ourselves.”