art work title:
Poligon
date of creation:
February 2024
expo:
Museum of Contemporary Art “PERMM” , Perm, Russia, 2024
Idea:
“Polygon” is the soundscape of the recycle installation “Banyan,” created from 20,000 plastic bottles. Both projects are focused on environmental issues and are intended to encourage viewers to practice recycling and respect for the world around us.
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Techniques:
The sound material based on field recordings at solid waste collection and disposal facilities, modified through sound synthesis and mixed into the final project.
Press-release ↗ (ru, permm website):
The work is a soundscape of physical and fictional spaces. It reflects the sounds of the Perm city polygon “Sofrony”, Dmitry Bulnygin’s large-scale recycle-installation “Banyan” exhibited in the large White Hall of PERMM, and a garbage collection facility in an ordinary urban apartment.
Part of the musical material is based on the geographical coordinates of the Perm polygon, which became parameters for the generation of the polyphonic series. Recordings of work with polyethylene, plastic, packing material form a wide palette of rhythms and noises.
The sound material of the sound art installation is created in several techniques. Field recordings helped to capture different thematic sounds: from working construction equipment to the cutting of plastic bottles and polyethylene packaging from diet cookies.
Sound synthesis was able to modify sounds, stretch or, on the contrary, compress sound waves, thus obtaining interesting sound effects. And, finally, with the help of mixing all sound parts were combined into a single musical composition.
The author connects the personal experience of separating garbage and recycling process with the experienced “garbage” emotions.
The practice of returning to one’s personal landfill, as well as addressing, dismantling and recycling unpleasant life experiences and emotions, once again reminds us of the necessity of not just “throwing away-forgetting”, but of recycling and realizing personal unpleasantness.
