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Presentation of field recordings made at the Castle
- Since we are creating the music programme of the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle from the ground up, starting with the sounds that resonate within the Castle and its surroundings, it should come as no surprise that field recording will be one of the project’s recurring components.
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- Today, field recording constitutes an important subgenre of broadly understood experimental music. Its genealogy reaches back at least to the beginnings of phonography and the belief in the possibility of capturing the sounds that surround us. Over recent decades, however, field recording has accumulated many additional contexts. It is still sometimes motivated by a desire to “rescue sounds from oblivion”, but it has also become a tool of archival politics, a means of reflecting on reality, a conceptual provocation, as well as a critique of the music market. At the same time, field recording is now as much a critical practice as it is a practice that itself demands critical scrutiny. Bringing together these two perspectives, along with reflecting on the increasingly ubiquitous act of sound recording, is one of the aims of the music programme.
