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Small voice of calm
by Alan Kean
Commissioned by E m e r g e D for RAW 2004

alan KEAN's piece for RAW is Small Voice of Calm, an audio work that interrupts the natural acoustics of St. Mary's Cathedral on Great Western Road by literally pitching the Cathedral's sounds back into its own space, dismantling the harmonic rhythms that lull and roll through the Cathedral's day. KEAN's dis-quieting can be experienced daily through RAW from 10 am - 5 pm.

KEAN's Small Voice of Calm describes sound through a visual analogy. Two audio strands simultaneously form and pull apart to form a jig-sawed sound-picture that acts as a membrane of noise. Real-time sound is caught and projected through the PA while recorded sound, already captured, layered and held, acts as a base line
raster in sound language. KEAN
re-builds the cliché of the everyday hum of life by using the ever-there sound track of St. Mary's Cathedral to rupture the flatness of noise that blankets our being.

Date: 10th - 18th April 2004

Full Address Details: St Marys Cathedral, 300 Great Western Road, Glasgow G4 9JB

Title: Small Voice of Calm

Web site: www.cathedral.glasgow.anglican.org
or www.emerged.net

Contact: amy SALES
Director
E m e r g e D
www.emerged.net

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