Soundwalk Collective

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Also known as Soundwalk Members Kamran Sadeghi		Years active 2000–present Albums Killer Road

Instruments Electronics, Modular Synthesizers, Website soundwalkcollective.com Origin New York City, New York, United States Genres Ambient music, Electronica, Musique concrète, Spoken word, Experimental music Similar Patti Smith, Wymond Miles, Nico, Francisco López, Tina Frank

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Soundwalk Collective is a band based in New York City and Berlin. The members consisting of founder Stephan Crasneanscki, Simone Merli and Kamran Sadeghi formed in Manhattan to produce concept albums, sound installations and live performances. Soundwalk Collective won an Audie Awards in 2004, 2007 and 2009, and Dalton Pen Award in 2005.

The Collective specializes in producing audio based works focused on nature and other subjects. Conducting long periods of investigative travel and field work to collect source material from specific locations. Soundwalk Collective has recently collaborated with Berghain, Nan Goldin, Jean-Luc Godard and Patti Smith in a live homage to singer Nico "Killer Road".

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Background

Soundwalk Collective, is an international musical-artist trio founded by Ukrainian-born American artist Stephan Crasneanscki. Soundwalk have been engaging with recordings, live performances, installations for over a decade. According to Ableton Soundwalk have been conducting expeditions to far-flung corners of the world to composed their music works from field recordings that strike a fascinating balance between documentation and abstraction.

Notable works

Killer Road - a tribute album to singer Nico's tragic death in 1988. The album features Patti Smith reciting poems and lyrics over music from Soundwalk Collective. Killer Road was performed live in 2014.

JUNGLE-IZED - a sound installation by Soundwalk Collective that featured wild environment of an Amazon rainforest onto eight blocks of Times Square. JUNGLE-IZED was meant to encourage a conversation with nature and to heighten awareness of the environmental impact of climate change.

What We Leave Behind - a sound piece composed solely of unreleased fragments of sound that were recorded on the film sets of Jean-Luc Godard.

Memoir of Disintegration - a sound composition, composed by David Wojnarowicz based on New York's homonymous and provocative correspondence that explored and captured existence of underground society of the 80's . Memoir of Disintegration featured Nan Goldin interpreting the most expressive excerpts of Wojnarowicz's writings.

Sons Of The Wind - In Sons Of The Wind, The Soundwalk Collective followed the core of the Danube and the Roma, it has influences of Eastern and Western, specially from the Black Sea Delta to the river's source in Germany also from the ghettos to mahale, from the trail of the Sons of the Wind. Sons Of The Wind featured heart-rending songs, mournful violins, tinkling cimbaloms, the gutsy tones of brass bands.

Ayahuasqueros - a radio essay based on a recordings from the Amazon, Peru written by Jeremy Narby along with Francisco López in 2012. Soundwalk Collective team traveled into the wild of the Peruvian Amazon to collect source materials of the chanting rituals of the ancient Ayahuasquero. They were called the Master Shaman, most of them were practitioner of plant medicine in ancient times.

Medea - In the summer of 2011, the Soundwalk Collective started their long waiting mythical journey along with the coast of the Black Sea for Medea, the Soundwalk have collected fragments of voices, morse codes, music, and ambient sound, collage them into an artistic product and a work of sound art. The book Medea: Zag Zig Series features photographs of Stephan Crasneanscki and texts by Arthur Larrue.

The Encounter - a radio essay featuring recordings from the Schwarzwald, Germany in 2010.".

Kill the Ego

24 Hours: The Starck Mix, 24-hour sound collage and bespoke mix for Philippe Starck, distributed in partnership with Wallpaper (magazine) (2009).

Chanel Mobile Art Soundscape Sound art project in collaboration with Chanel (2009) for the mobile art pavilion created by Zaha Hadid

Exhibits

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

CTM Festival, Berlin

Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg

Volksbühne, Berlin

Union Chapel, Islington London

MuCEM, Marseille

Times Square, NYC

Venice Biennial Of Art, Venice

Awards and honors

Silver Radio Winner of International Radio Program Award 2016.

Audie Award in 2004, 2007, 2009.

Official Selection at Qwartz Electronic Music Awards, Paris.

Dalton Pen Award in 2005.

Songs

Killer Road2016
I Will Be Seven2016
Fearfully in Danger2016

References

Soundwalk Collective Wikipedia

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