The sound of Sankt Nicolai goes Dada

Jan 25, 2016, 03:39 PM

Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds

By Robert Cole Rizzi. "The sound was discovered as I was investigating the church for sounds for a commissioned piece for an installation for Kolding Light Festival in December 2015. You may hear the piece here https:// soundcloud.com/rizzi/hope-the-sound-of-sankt-nicolai-church-in-kolding-denmark - the drainpipe recording is in there… I decided to apply the sound poem technique - in my own interpretation - my father, Richard J. Rizzi, is a poet and I have a recording of him reading his poem “Virgin Mary Falls From my Sleep” (I found it to be appropriate considering the origin of my field recording) I warped it using the “preserve transients” played forward at 20 - setting in Ableton - duplicated, reversed and panned each one hard L/R and there you have it…"