Joao Vasco Paiva

G.E.O. project stands on the blink of soundscape and sound mapping. sound in culture and individual experience. Joao Vasco has been doing fieldrecordings in Asia for the last years and presents them in a musical context, analysing its structure as well as its cultural /social specificity."memorandum circular 04", was a response to a site specific work for the Hong Kong and Shenzen Architecture and Urbanism bienalle in February of 2008 , being the challenge to create a sound work based on hong Kong s central district , "memorandum circular 04 " is the recording of a demonstration done by filipino immigrants against the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency, Memorandum Circular 04 . This piece consists on a harmonic drone produced by the hundreds of filipino workers that gather in the streets of the Central District on Sundays growing to the ecstatic voices of protest trough megaphones and the feedback of the crowd_______________________________________________________ _____________________ "Dannang" was recorded in Hoa s place,China beach , Vietnam September 2007 2 conversations lead by backpackers surge at the same time in the first plan backpackers from new york describe their 9/11 while the background voices are from backpackers from Telaviv complaining about not being allowed to enter Malaysia . The track is a part of a series of recordings on speech . ____________________________________________________________ _______________ "Sau tui Che - ecological reduction" was recorded in Sheung Wan , Hong Kong Island,a sound walk in Sheung Wan using a "sau tui che"(cantonese) - a kart that is usually used by small workers and homeless people to carry their things .The kart ( velocity , weigh ...) was used as an instrument embed into the soundscape ________________________________________________________

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