A book and audio CD, Water Days documents an exchange of pictures, texts, sounds and voices between multimedia artist Leah Singer and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. During their 2007 and 2008 residencies at the Centre national de l'estampe et de l'art imprimé (CNEAI) in Chatou, near Paris, Singer and Ranaldo created a body of printworks in the museum's etching atelier, as well as field recordings made in the studio, on their houseboat and in the community at large. Water Days began as two texts inspired by the conflict between wanderlust and the desire for home. When invited to do a radio piece for Atelier de Création Radiophonique de France Culture, the sound recordings made in Chatou were combined with recordings of electric guitar, as well as pre-recorded voices including those of artist Robert Smithson and writer Carson McCullers. The current volume attempts to create a filmic sequence of photographs to augment and accompany the recording.
"Sitting alongside the canal out the back door of the paradiso on a slate-grey stone table & benches--the canal is glinting, bikes, cars boats. These brief trips become like little poems--tiny image-flashes. dapper guy in small motorboat - just drives by, jeans jacket and shades, blasting some psychedelic sitar music, shaggy brown dog on a boat w him. the light here always impresses me---the way it glints off the canals--the way it beams thru all the glass windows..."
Leah Singer and Lee Ranaldo, excerpt and image from Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer: Water Days.
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"We were working on prints in the atelier and living on the Maison Flottante; sleeping on the Seine! During our stay we also spent time contemplating and recording the sounds within which we were immersed-the river, boats, birds, winds, waves, even the air over the Seine; local church bells, sounds in the atelier where we were working. To these we added audio recorded in other locales and also voices: artist Robert Smithson, writer Carson McCullers, friends and associates. We prepared text together, which forms the center section of the audio piece. The voices and conversations around us were both English and French; both found their way into the final version of the audio piece commissioned by Atelier Creation Radiophonique, France."
FORMAT: Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 64 pgs / 62 color / Audio CD. LIST PRICE: U.S. $40.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $54 ISBN: 9782914563529 PUBLISHER: Dis Voir AVAILABLE: 4/30/2010 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR ME
A book and audio CD, Water Days documents an exchange of pictures, texts, sounds and voices between multimedia artist Leah Singer and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. During their 2007 and 2008 residencies at the Centre national de l'estampe et de l'art imprimé (CNEAI) in Chatou, near Paris, Singer and Ranaldo created a body of printworks in the museum's etching atelier, as well as field recordings made in the studio, on their houseboat and in the community at large. Water Days began as two texts inspired by the conflict between wanderlust and the desire for home. When invited to do a radio piece for Atelier de Création Radiophonique de France Culture, the sound recordings made in Chatou were combined with recordings of electric guitar, as well as pre-recorded voices including those of artist Robert Smithson and writer Carson McCullers. The current volume attempts to create a filmic sequence of photographs to augment and accompany the recording.
