Etude Ikologique | Quills that Whisper | 22 April 2022 | Belfast
Etude Ikologique is not a finalised composition, it cannot be. Rather, it is a contingent study that emerged through a stimulating exchange with the IKO speaker and the room in which it was located, on a rainy winter afternoon in Greenwich, London. In that sense, this work was composed with the speaker and the space, not for them. For me, the idea behind the interaction was to understand the speaker’s behaviour and explore its sound spatialiation affordances through a series of rhythmic, timbral, and textural interventions. Voices are mostly recorded from radio broadcasts. Throughout the piece, they momentarily reveal something to the ‘listener’. Though, their semantic aspect is always concealed due to short duration or radio interference and other events. Together, the voices tell the most amazing story. But, this story is less significant than the one told by other sounds/noises within the piece, or without.
