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Two Weeks in Alert Bay | Hein Schoer<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Track Listing<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1 One Day in the Life of Raven (Full Version) 42\u2019<\/p>\n a) Exposition: Coming to in Alert Bay <\/p>\n 2 Four Worlds (Workshop Edit) 21\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3 Short Trip (Walk-In Edit) 6\u201930\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Excerpt:<\/p>\n MP3<\/a> <\/p>\n 3 Tracks (69\u203234\u2033) <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A raven croaks.<\/p>\n I hear a faint broadband noise, not static but gently varying in volume, centre frequency and Zwicker\u2019s parameters. At first there are only short blows that enter my consciousness, but as I regain awareness, it becomes a constant, swooshing sound, that, as I realise after a moment of malorientation, arrives at my ears mainly from the half-open window of my room at the Alert Bay Lodge facing the forest behind it. I have come to Alert Bay, BC (British Columbia) in the course of my research project \u201cThe Sounding Museum\u201d, within which I look at (and listen to) the production and presentation of cultural soundscapes.<\/p>\n This 42-minute piece tries to draw a picture of the contemporary sonic landscape of the people of Alert Bay, the four movements laid out below representing the sacred number and the four realms of Kwakwaka\u2019wakw mythology. It is composed from recordings made in and around Alert Bay in collaboration with William Wasden jr. and other Native scholars of traditional culture, ritual, and mythology, roughly oriented on the tales about the raven and creator entity U\u2019melth and other West Coast myths. It circles around the inner conflict of modern and traditional life in contemporary Native communities. <\/p>\n The Project \u201cSound Chamber – Acoustic Worlds of the Indigenous Peoples of North America\u201d has been approved by the Swiss UNESCO Commission as a contribution to the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures. Its scientific\/artistic implementation is conducted by The Sounding Museum.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n www.fontys.edu\/artsinsociety<\/a><\/p>\n www.nonam.ch<\/a><\/p>\n www.auditorium-mundi.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photography by Hein Schoer <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nausika | The Sound Projector<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Two Weeks in Alert Bay: spotlight on a traditional First Nations society in western Canada<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I never know quite what to make of sound recordings like this one as I always feel I\u2019m only getting half of what soundscape musician Hein Schoer experienced: something like this document needs to be visual and to be seen along with the soundtrack. For me, this project would have been much better done as a combined DVD \/ CD package so that I can actually see the Alert Bay, Vancouver Island, environment where Schoer did his research. Looking at the photographs of the bay, the forests that border it and the Rocky Mountains in the distant background, shrouded in white cloud, I am sure this landscape and the misty weather are as much a part of the culture of the \u2018Namgis Nation that inhabits this part of western Canada; one imagines that the weather here is always cool, the air always feeling slightly damp or humid and that when one looks across the bay and sees the silhouettes of dark fir forests and the mountains rising behind them, their edges always look slightly soft and blurred and the overall mood of the area seems meditative and restful.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The tracks on offer here consist of field recordings of the natural sounds and wildlife of the Alert Bay area and of the activities of the \u2018Namgis people. There are recordings of people performing traditional rituals and playing music, of children learning their culture\u2019s traditional songs and their native language, and of men making traditional tools and handicrafts while the radio plays in the background. All very well but the listener has to take these recordings at face value and assume they are what Schoer says they are. There\u2019s nothing or no-one on these recordings who gives a commentary on what parts of the soundtrack are about whatever the people are doing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If only the CD had fallen into my lap and not any other material, and I were to play the CD as is, I\u2019d have no idea from hearing the CD which part of North America and which First Nations group were being featured. There is not even a map of the area of Vancouver Island where Alert Bay is located and no information in the package about the culture of the \u2018Namgis people and how it relates to other traditional cultures of western British Columbia. Having some knowledge of traditional culture areas of North America, I realise the \u2018Namgis people would have been part of the Northwest Coast cultural complex in which salmon is one of the staple foods, a sedentary life-style is normal with people living in permanent wooden houses and organised in clans, and social hierarchies dominated society with the custom of potlatches to underline social status. In the area where the \u2018Namgis people live, whaling would have been part of the culture. Most people outside Canada are not so lucky to know all this and would feel quite distant from the soundtrack here, not having any idea of what it all relates to.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The music is quite powerful and very rhythmic: most of the singing is done by men although there are a few occasions where children sing similar-sounding songs. There is no singing done by women but that may be because Schoer, not familiar with the culture of the \u2018Namgis, did not know there might be some aspects of the culture out of bounds to him as a male; nearly every culture has some knowledge and traditions that are particular only to men, and other knowledge and traditions that only women are allowed to know. Certainly there is some solo singing here that imitates the sounds of animals and it could be this is shamanic singing, the singer attempting to contact an animal spirit for help or to gain power over some part of nature. Natural sounds include the sounds of ocean waves, trickling water and a waterfall, and there are also sounds of birds, bears, seals perhaps and howling wolves.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The CD booklet includes photographs of nature, illustrations of everyday life for the \u2018Namgis people and a retelling of a creation myth in which a trickster figure called Raven steals the sun. The myth may have some meaning for Schoer who like Raven \u201csteals\u201d a little bit of an unknown culture to illuminate a path for listeners who may be inspired to investigate further the culture of the \u2018Namgis and other First Nations people in western Canada.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stephen Fruitman | sonomu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n A sprawling landscape of the world in one small town, where the curiosity of the artist and the reflexive objectivity of the ethnologist combine to express our common need to tell and retell stories.<\/p>\n Hein Schoer\u00b4s two weeks collecting sounds have been arranged into an impressionistic narrative based upon versions of the local legend of the raven who stole the sun. Alert Bay is a tiny island community off the southern coast of British Columbia, its five hundred-odd inhabitants equally divided between Caucasian and First Nations Canadians. Schoer made over thirty-five hours of crystal-clear recordings of all the sounds you can imagine a woodland community and its surroundings might make and whittled them down to a vivid audio portrait. We hear much outdoor work but also a lot of indoor learning and a lot of play.<\/p>\n The feature presentation is forty-two minutes long and entitled \u201dOne Day in the Life of Raven\u201d. It is followed by a workshopped version exactly half as long, and an exhilarating six-and-a-half minute \u201dradio edit\u201d, which I suppose is a kind of public radio hit-single version. The album package is generously designed, richly illustrated and packed with both tales and details by written by Schoer.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Massimiliano Busti | BLOW UP.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n L\u2019etichetta tedesca Gruenrekorder ha un catalogo assai ricco, centrato soprattutto su sound art e fields recordings. A questo stesso contesto appartiene il lavoro di Hein Schoer, derivante da oltre trentacinque ore di registrazioni effettuate nella pi\u00f9 occidentale delle regioni canadesi, la British Columbia. Composto nell\u2019ambito del progetto Sounding Museum (una camera con impianto quadrifonico situata a Zurigo, creata con lo scopo di presentare le culture arcaiche del Nord America attraverso il solo mezzo acustico), \u201cTwo Weeks in Alert Bay\u201d \u00e8 un affascinante montaggio sonoro che unisce con successo fluidit\u00e0 narrativa e spirito documentaristico. 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\u0437\u0430\u043c\u0435\u0447\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u043c \u0440\u0430\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0430\u0437\u0447\u0438\u043a\u043e\u043c \u0438 \u043f\u043e\u0447\u0442\u0438 \u0447\u0442\u043e \u0433\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u043c \u0437\u0432\u0443\u043a\u043e\u0440\u0435\u0436\u0438\u0441\u0441\u0435\u0440\u043e\u043c.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Richard Pinnell | The Wire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The German Gruenrekorder label explores phonography in many forms, extending their activities beyond their substantial catalogue of CDs into publications, events and lectures held on the subject of field recording, natural acoustic phenomena and the links with experimental music. These two recent releases, while both involving field recordings to some degree, illustrate the wide range of activity undertaken by the label. link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ron Schepper | textura<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Hein Schoer, cultural soundscape producer and the prime mover behind the research project \u201cThe Sounding Museum,\u201d inaugurates the CD series with a captivating meditation on the Native community of Alert Bay, British Columbia. It’s more than a sound portrait of the physical activities in play on a given day\u2014construction work being done, children being taught, and so forth\u2014as it also focuses on the myths (about the raven and creator entity U’melth, for instance) and ritual dances and chants that are so much an inextricable part of the West Coast community’s culture. In one sense, the work documents the people’s ongoing attempt to strike a balance between the modern and traditional in their lives.<\/p>\n After opening with the croak of the titular bird, \u201cOne Day in the Life of Raven (Full Version)\u201d assumes the form of a long-form travelogue through the Pacific Northwest Coast. Schoer fashions it as a work in four movements (\u201cThe Natural Soundscape,\u201d \u201cThe Artificial Soundscape,\u201d \u201cThe Human Soundscape,\u201d \u201cThe Cultural Soundscape & Spirit World\u201d) that begins with arrival at the site, followed by sound samplings of the natural landscape (rushing waters, wind, woodpeckers, drizzle, fire) and those made by residents of the locale (drum chants, conversations, an elementary class in session) heard against a backdrop of radio music (a Rod Stewart cover of \u201cStreet Fighting Man\u201d) and construction noise (hammering, drilling, fishing). \u201cThe Spirit World movement,\u201d not surprisingly, turns out to be the most arresting section due to the ritual chants and calls that emerge, but the piece as a whole\u2014especially when it never stays in one place for long\u2014holds one’s attention throughout the trip. Despite its forty-two-minute length, the piece comes across as a captivating sound portrait of a vibrant community with deep roots in spirit culture and story-telling and connections to the landscape.<\/p>\n Two shorter edits accompany the CD’s primary work. \u201cFour Worlds (Workshop Edit)\u201d re-assembles the original’s elements into a half-sized version that feels comparatively more fragmented and experimental, the focus less on coherent narrative and more on collage-like design. Overlapping conversations emerge amidst car noises, bird caws, radio tunes, fireplace crackle, phone rings, drilling and wood hammering, and chants. Predictably, the six-minute \u201cShort Trip (Walk-In Edit)\u201d offers a mere snapshot of the original, though it does convey the character of the original at a micro-level. In essence, the edits are purely supplementary to the full version.<\/p>\n The release comes with a booklet whose text (written by Schoer) provides detailed background about the project as well as documentation about the sound sources used in the recording. Enhancing our understanding of what is heard during the work, the text identifies the various locales that are visited, such as the U’mista Cultural Centre, where a language class, dance performance, and Raven Song rehearsal take place, and the T’lisalagi’lakw Native School, where a fourth\/fifth grade science class is heard in session. The project as a whole succeeds in allowing the listener previously unfamiliar with the site to feel as if he\/she has come to be more enlightened about its character and spirit following the immersive experiences of listening to the work and absorbing the booklet’s text.<\/p>\n link<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nA Soundscape Composition
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\nTwo Weeks in Alert Bay, edition 2<\/a>
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\nSlowly evolving sound field, on which the sounds of the Pacific Northwest Coast can sprout, opening up into
\nb) 1st Movement: The Natural Soundscape
\nSounds of Water, air, forest (realms one, two and three), life, seamlessly leading to
\nc) 2nd Movement: The Artificial Soundscape
\nSounds of people, machines, everyday sounds, genuine practices like woodwork and fishing, leading into
\nd) 3rd Movement: The Human Voice
\nSpeech (bilingual), dialogue, song, Native School, fading into
\ne) 4th Movement: The Spirit World
\nRitual instruments, music, ceremony, traditional song and dance, heavily processed and based mainly on recordings from the Bobby Duncan potlatch (realm four)
\nf) Reprise: Down to Earth (The Return Journey)
\nLeaving the Spirit World on a trail that leads halfway back to the 1st Movement, ending in the Band Cabin at Woss Lake, in a \u201chere-and-now\u201d situation, with Wa singing and the wind in the trees..<\/p>\n
\nComing to in Alert Bay<\/p>\n
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\nIt\u2019s still dark, so I keep lying and listening. The ocean waves manage to escape the masking grip of the wind in the trees. I can hear them very well now; although their frequency band is not that different from the wind, the internal structure of the waveform allows my brain to separate them from one another. I rub the fatigue out of my eyes, slip into my clothes, grab my gear, and head for the opening in the middle of the forest of Cormorant Island Ecological Park.
\nThe spirits of the skies are with me tonight, I think, as the wind stops to blow and leaves nothing but silence. I had been up here late in the evening, and had made a good quarter of an hour of nice ambience recordings, the dominant sound had been wind, but for the morning atmo I prefer a low noisefloor to be able to capture the awaking bugs and birds. With the whole island still asleep the dying wind leaves me in peaceful quiet.<\/p>\n
\nTwo shorter edits, that are on display in quadraphonic surround sound in the Sound Chamber at the North America Native Museum (NONAM) in Zurich, accompany the full version on this CD.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.gruenrekorder.de\/Photos\/hein_schoer\/unesco.jpg\")
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\nSoundscape Series by Gruenrekorder
\nGruenrekorder \/ Germany \/ 2010 \/ Gruen 082 \/ LC 09488<\/p>\n
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\nHein Schoer\u2019s release is the end result of two weeks\u2019 recording in a remote coastal area in British Columbia. Some 35 hours of crystal clear recordings have been collated and compiled into a kind of audio diary of Schoer\u2019s visit. Perhaps more of a portrait of the area and its native communities, a kind of audio equivalent of a National Geographic piece more than a musical composition, the album jumps from natural sounds to conversations overheard, local singing lessons, the sound of wood being worked and a teacher taking class with plenty more in between. Two Weeks In Alert Bay works as an entry point into an unfamiliar environment much better than as an abstract piece of music. […]<\/p>\n