WSK X: Festival of the Recently Possible
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Streets of Escolta & Arroceros Forest Park
“Audio Tour,” a recurring project of music producer and artist escuri, is a soundwalk activity which encourages active listening among participants as they wander around specific locations as an alternative way of perceiving and relating to one’s environment. This iteration invites the audience to stroll through the historic street of Escolta in Manila. Designed to encourage an awareness of the omnipresence of sound, this program treats spaces as living organisms, each possessing their own unique character, communicating its stories through sound.
Jett Ilagan, a.k.a. escuri, is a music producer, sound and visual artist from Laguna, Philippines. His audio works explore sound and particularly the idea of “cultural soundscapes” through various methods such as field recordings and personal encounters with the subject environment and its locals.
Meet-up will be at 2:00PM, at First United Building, 413 Escolta St., Binondo Manila.
At 3:30 PM, the tour will lead to a parade in Manila’s last lung.
Parade is a sonic performance event that will take place at different parts of the Arroceros Forest Park. Three artists — mizutama, Kayu Nakada, and Tadashi Yonago — will invite local musicians to participate in a performance which will be broadcasted via FM transmitters. By distributing radios to the audience and encouraging them to manipulate the device in any way they see fit, the artists aim to reaffirm the idea of listening as an active process, thereby establishing the audience as equal collaborators in this aural gestalt.
All three artists share a DIY ethic, a fascination with electronics and aleatoric processes, and a tendency to find beauty in everyday life. These sensibilities are evident in this program which aims to activate the site as a sanctuary for ludic interactions.
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WSK X is supported by Nusasonic, an initiative of Goethe-Institut Philippinen, and the 国際交流基金アジアセンター The Japan Foundation Asia Center under the Grant Program for Promotion of Cultural Collaboration
