Silva Datum Musica / TIM COLLINS & REIKO GOTO WITH CHRIS MALCOLM
Collins & Goto Studio: Tim Collins and Reiko Goto have developed long-term, socially engaged environmental research (SEER) that examines the cultural meaning of semi-natural ancient forest: Future Forest (2013-present); Sylva Caledonia (2015); Caledonian Decoy (2017); PLEIN AIR: The Ethical Aesthetic Impulse (2010); CO2 Edinburgh (2013); Sound of a Tree: Cologne (2016); PLEIN AIR Live at Glasgow Botanics (2017); Nine Mile Run (1997-2000); and 3 Rivers 2nd Nature (2000-2005). Outputs include artworks, exhibitions, seminars, workshops, and publications that embrace an arts-led dialogue method of research-and theory-informed public practice. They have worked with other artists, musicians, planners, communities, scientists, and technologists as well as historians and philosophers to realize work for over twenty years.
Sound Programmer: Chris Malcolm is a Scottish computer programmer and software developer with over twenty years of experience writing computer code with vector graphics, sound and interactive systems for industry clients. He also has an extensive background in experimental music developing innovative tools and instruments for studio and live performance. Malcolm is recognized within the electronic music scene for his use of retro-computers and consoles to generate unexpected interactive audio and visual experiences. The work with Collins & Goto Studio is driven by a curiosity about human relationships to technology as a tool and as an interface to bio-events. The PLEIN AIR system and software opens up new programming challenges and levels of expression not available with traditional electronic instruments and methods.
Producer: Georg Dietzler is a Cologne-based artist, author, curator, and consultant. He is recognized as an active producer of cross-disciplinary cultural projects, exhibitions, seminars and conferences, audio-visual concerts, media, dance, improv-theatre, and more. As a socio-political and conceptual artist with an international reputation, he works on ecological future visions linked to social and political change. His latest art work is a concept for an inner-city citizens’ heirloom orchard, introduced at ‘Ecovention Europe’ at De Domijnen, in Sittard Netherlands in 2017.
Mastering/Postproduction: Dirk Specht is a sound artist, electronic and electroacoustic musician, sound recordist, and curator. From 2011 to 2016 he has been assistant professor for sound at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany. His works include electroacoustic compositions, field recording and soundscape-compositions, ars acustica/radio drama, sound art pieces and spatial installations, music for dance and choreography, and soundtracks for films and video. He also works on projects focusing on sound archives, audio restoration, sound post-production, and mastering. Having studied architecture (Berlin) and media art (Cologne), he shares a great interest in the relations between sound and space(s), intermediality and experimental approaches to sound, music, and spatial arts. He is a founding member of Therapeutische Hörgruppe Köln and Frequenzwechsel, two media/sound-artist collectives. Specht lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
Artist: Reiko Goto Collins was born in Japan and has lived in both the US and UK. She is a principal in the Collins & Goto Studio. She has been a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She participates in an international climate change network, Council on the Uncertain Human Future, and is currently involved in the working group ‘Living Organisms and Their Choices’ at the University of Edinburgh. She is a distinguished research fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Artist: Tim Collins is from the US, an artist, author, and planner; a principal in the Collins & Goto Studio; and an honorary research fellow in the School of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen. He works across science, technology, and philosophy to develop projects related to nature, culture, and to changing ideas about ethical duty and public space. In 2017, he was on the development committee for the ‘Art and Artists in Landscape Environment Research Today’ seminar at the National Gallery in London. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Landscape Research Group and Glasgow Sculpture Studios.
(The team prepares the instrument and the recording devices at the Kibble Palace in Glasgow as an oak, and aspen and an elderberry await their performance.)
Stein, E. (2002) On the Problem of Empathy. (W. Stein, trans.). Washington D.C.: ICS Publications. (Original work published 1917)
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Silva Datum Musica: „PLEIN AIR“ (Gruen 187/19)