Detali Zvuku, Ukraine and the horror of bureaucracy

LFSaw — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:57:38 +0000

Just listen again to the excellent live recordings of the Detali Zvuku festival 2006/2007, and realising that this festival really must be one of the qualitatively best festivals for experimental sound.

While listening, I thought that it must be worth a journey and searched for announcements and found this:

At the beginning of September official city [of LVIV] didn’t solve not one general question from the list of agreements. We couldn’t start advertisement company in Ukraine, couldn’t choose company to deal with tech rider questions; we didn’t receive money for flight tickets for artists, not even talking about guarantees to pay fees in time. In fact all control on every organizational question up to the size of flier and quantity of posters was taken from us.

[festival page]

What a shame. Seriously, I really find this shocking.
I mean, it is already insane to not support such a great festival, but to additionally make them believe that there is support makes it even worse.

But, nevertheless, hear these excellent recordings of combos like “Kapital Band 1″, “Plesk” and many others here and here.

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LFSaw — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:07:28 +0000

Just read an article on sound installations in gardens. To be honest, this again reminds me again that I wonder every now and then that I do not know why audio installations often look like crap. No offense here, I think the artists just don’t care. But, seriously, I think they should. Especially in audio installations normal, non-audiophile people just don’t get it, it seems to me so essential to create a complete artistic setup, and when approaching an audio installation, you might not really hear what’s going on, but you immediately see the (technical) installation. I don’t mean that you should hide technical aspects. But hey, just take a valuable headphone of some serious quality. Or just get the audio-cables right so they visually fit to the environment. The other thing is that I can’t tell from the below-cited post if I’d like the sound; probably I will. But All I get is this strange picture of bad-looking audio-gadgets thrown into the wood.
That’s why there’s no picture in my post. Cheers.

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Detali Zvuku, Ukraine and the horror of bureaucracy

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