Marcus
Coates - Dawn Chorus
May 10th
& 11th, 17th & 18th, 24th & 25th.
Dawn
Chorus is an exhibition comprising films of 17 singers that recreate
birdsong in their ‘natural habitats'. The individuals sing from
various situations such as an underground car-park, an osteopathic clinic
and a shed. Filmed in Bristol, the project is as much a portrait of
British society and idiosyncrasy as it is of our natural world.
Multiple
microphones were placed around woodland to record birdsong at dawn over
a two week period in Northumberland. From this multi-track recording
each song was slowed down up to 16 times, and each human participant
was filmed mimicking this slowed-down birdsong. The resulting video
footage was then speeded up, returning the bird mimicry into its ‘real'
register.
The speeding
up of the film both translates the human voice into bird song, and emphasises
unconscious gestures that are remarkably similar to the physical behaviour
of specific birds; a grandfather becomes a pheasant, teachers in a staffroom
transform into chiffchaffs, robins and blue tits and an office worker
metamorphoses into a wren.
Yn arddangos
yn The Last Gallery ar benwythnosau drwy gydol Mai 2008 - 10yb tan 6yh
Arddangosfa
o ffilmiau o 17 canwr yn ailgreu sain adar yn canu yn eu cynefin naturiol
yw ‘Dawn Chorus’. Canai’r unigolion o sefyllfaoedd
amrywiol fel maes parcio tanddaearol, mewn clinig llawdriniwr ac mewn
sied.
Wedi ei ffilmio ym Mryste, mae’r prosiect cyn gymaint o bortread o gymdeithas ac anianawd Prydeinig ag ydyw o’n byd naturiol.
Cafodd
meicroffonau eu lleoli mewn coedwigoedd er mwyn recordio adar yn canu
gyda’r wawr dros gyfnod o pythefnos yn Northumberland. O’r
recordiad aml-drac yma, arafwyd pob can hyd at 16 o weithiau a ffilmiwyd
pob cyfranydd yn dynwaredu hyn. Cyflymwyd y fideo a dychwelyd dynwarediad
yr adar i’w cofrestr ‘cywir’.
Roedd cyflymu’r film wedi cyfieithu’r llais dynol i sain adar a dychwelyd y dynwared i’w gofrestr iawn. Cyfieitha cyflymu’r tap amryw o agweddau o’r llais dynol i’r ‘stumiau anymwybodol sy’n anhygoel o debyg i ymddygiad corfforol adar penodol, er enghraifft, aeth datcu yn ffesant, athrawon mewn dosbarth yn trawsffurfio i fod yn robin a thitw tomos las a gweithiwr swyddfa yn metamorffeiddio i fod yn ddryw. |
Saturday 19 January 2013
Marcus Coates - Dawn Chorus
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