Albanian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale
Published
http://www.albanianpavilion.com/2016/
A living art form in step with generations of migration and transition, “singing migration” has been a core part of processing departure, longing, and return. The Albanian Pavilion is a space of collective listening, of “individuals in company.”
I Have Left You The Mountain initiates a conversation about the urbanism of displacement, projecting the Albanian case onto an international stage, with the express intention to transmit that dialogue and its speculations back into Albania.
Foto: Špela Volčič.
On the technical realisation
Performances have been captured as eight channel audio recordings with separate channels for each voice. Using eight speakers at the pavilion each of the voices is reproduced individually. Playback is controlled by a vinyl record player playing a special vinyl record containing timecode information. A Max patch interprets this information in order to control playback of the 8 channel tracks.
Commissioner
The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Albania
Curators
Simon Battisti
Leah Whitman-Salkin
Åbäke
Sound design and technical consultation
Peter Meanwell
Trond Lossius
Furniture design
Max Lamb
Pavilion construction
Luigi D’Oro & Arguzia S.r.l.
Location
Arsenale (Room 5), Venice
Sponsors
Meyer Sound
BEK
Sigal Uniqa
Spring
AlbaRent
Savatours