{"id":2747,"date":"2010-04-25T23:47:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T23:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2010\/04\/river_sounding\/"},"modified":"2010-04-25T23:47:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T23:47:58","slug":"river_sounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/river_sounding\/","title":{"rendered":"River Sounding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/4552220101\/\" title=\"Somerset House-10 by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3328\/4552220101_023b148701.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Somerset House-10\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI visited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somersethouse.org.uk\/visual_arts\/bill_fontana_2\/default.asp\">River Sounding<\/a> over the weekend &#8211; the audio\/video exhibition by Bill Fontana at Somerset House.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s recorded audio and shot video along the full length of the Thames and then used it in an installation placed in the Lightwells and Dead House beneath Somerset House&#8217;s courtyard.<br \/>\nThere are lots of little rooms and enclosures with projections against the mostly bare walls accompanied with audio.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/4552230031\/\" title=\"Somerset House-11 by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4050\/4552230031_affd8de3a9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Somerset House-11\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI wasn&#8217;t sure if I was allowed to record any audio within the exhibition, and in any case, it wouldn&#8217;t easily reproduce well &#8211; particularly not the bass rumblings that sometimes come from massive speakers more usually found at rock concerts.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/4552211531\/\" title=\"Somerset House-8 by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1310\/4552211531_3e9f7fd41f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Somerset House-8\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNonetheless, I did record some of the noise of the fountains. What you can hear is me walking through the fountains and getting wet in the process. There&#8217;s a bit of wind on the microphone as I move.<br \/>\n<object data=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\" height=\"129\" id=\"iefix1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/swf\/fullsize_player.swf\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"lt\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"mp3Author=adambowie&amp;mp3LinkURL=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F120823-edward-j-safra-fountain-court-at-somerset-house&amp;mp3Title=Edward+J.+Safra+Fountain+Court+at+Somerset+House&amp;mp3Time=10.07pm+25+Apr+2010&amp;mp3=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F120823-edward-j-safra-fountain-court-at-somerset-house.mp3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/120823-edward-j-safra-fountain-court-at-somerset-house.mp3\">Listen!<\/a><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/4552845508\/\" title=\"Somerset House-7 by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1203\/4552845508_a41e3c5e3b.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Somerset House-7\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/4552180571\/\" title=\"Somerset House-2 by adambowie, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1052\/4552180571_38edac4bfe.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Somerset House-2\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere are a couple more pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/sets\/72157623931471072\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited River Sounding over the weekend &#8211; the audio\/video exhibition by Bill Fontana at Somerset House. He&#8217;s recorded audio and shot video along the full length of the Thames and then used it in an installation placed in the Lightwells and Dead House beneath Somerset House&#8217;s courtyard. There are lots of little rooms and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-misc","category-photography"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}