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Each Morning of the World #02
North American PhoNographic Mornings #15/20
Seattle ~ Washington ~ USA ~
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« Inhabiting Space »
Steve Barsotti
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The recordings for this piece were all made in the wee hours of the day in several locations in Seattle; Carkeek Park, Greenlake Park and the Pike Place Market. Seattle is a blend of urban and wooded areas where the parks can pull you out of the sense of being in a city. The work is a reflection on time and space. Sounds were recorded at similar times of days but across multiple days and at these three locations. The resultant piece is not a literal representation of these spaces but my recollections of mood while inhabiting these spaces.
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Steve Barsotti
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Steve Barsotti is a Seattle based improviser, sound artist, instrument inventor and educator. His work explores notions of reduced listening through close examinations of easily bypassed sonic details; sounds that can only be heard through contact microphones and amplification or the sonic qualities of materials and objects found in everyday life. He invites the listener to forgo an attempt at literal connections with the sounds and to focus on the sounds in and of themselves.
He is an original member of the Seattle Phonographers Union, a group of field recording wielding improvisers, and has been responsible for many of the group's activities. The Union is described as "moving beyond habitual experience of sound and uncover what is foreign in the familiar and familiar about the foreign; to explore what we hear and relearn what we know" They have been performing together for eight years.
Barsotti has been involved in a variety of community and educational activities over the years. With Tod Sczwczyk he co-founded In the Eye of the Ear, an organization dedicated to the promotion of artists who use sound as a primary medium of expression, and during the nineties curated and produced several festivals under that name.
He was an original member of W.A.L.K., a collective of artists that did performance and installation work outside the traditional white wall gallery setting and instead performed in such everyday locations such as abandoned department stores, a park field bath house and a 13th century observatory in Vilnius, Lithuania. Their performances were durational in nature, sometimes lasting for weeks.
Steve has been teaching for over 20 years. He has taught workshops through community organizations as well as having taught a variety of course in various colleges. Currently he is the Academic Director of Audio Design Technology at the Art Institute of Seattle. He has been teaching there for over ten years.
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