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Do you have an original song, poem, story or experimental sound work that
honors the memory of someone you've lost?  I'm collecting sound works to
include in a sound project that takes place on hiking trails in Yoho
National Park, 7/21/99-8/15/99.   For further information or to participate
please contact:  Teri Rueb, c/o The Banff Centre for the Arts, Media and
Visual Arts, 107 Tunnel Mountain Drive, Banff, Alberta, CANADA TOL 030, or
at rueb@xxxxxxxxx

http://www.umbc.edu/~rueb/trace.html


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CONTACT:  Teri Rueb, Department of Visual Art
	http://www.umbc.edu/~rueb/trace.html
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle, Room FA 519
Baltimore, MD  21250
(office) 410-455-3322  rueb@xxxxxxxx

PROJECT SUMMARY
Trace: an environmental sound installation
Designed and produced by Teri Rueb in Co-Production with The Banff Centre
for the Arts

Trace is a memorial environmental sound installation along the network of
trails near the Burgess Shale fossil beds in Yoho National Park, British
Columbia.  The installation transforms the network of hiking trails into a
physical interface to a database of sound recordings that commemorate
personal loss. Walking through the installation is like wandering through a
memorial sculpture garden where, instead of visible monuments, visitors
weave their way through memorial poems, songs, and stories that play in
response to their movement through the landscape.

The project consists of a database of sound recordings made as memorials to
people who have died or as compositions that explore themes of death, loss
and transformation.  Interested participants may contribute a recorded
memorial (prepared off-site) to the database and choose a point along one
of the trails for it to be heard by visitors to the installation.  Works
are prepared in advance and may take the form of an elegy, dirge, requiem,
story, poem, song or experimental composition.

Visitors to the installation are given knapsacks to carry with them as they
hike.  Each knapsack contains a small computer and a global positioning
satellite receiver (GPS).  The database of sound recordings resides on the
hard drive of each computer.  As the visitor hikes the trail, the GPS
detects his or her longitude and latitude.  When the hiker passes through
an area which has been chosen for the playback of a memorial, the GPS
senses the location and activates playback of the corresponding memorial
from the computer's hard drive.  Recordings are heard through open-cel
headphones, allowing sounds of the natural environment to intermingle with
the memorial compositions.

The installation will be launched in the summer of 1999 for a period of
three weeks from July 21 - August 15.  The database of memorials will
evolve indefinitely as interested participants contribute memorial songs,
poems, and stories.  Memorials may be submitted in cassette or DAT tape
form or may be uploaded over the internet to the project web site.  The
database currently features works by Diana Berry, Susan Davis, Sarah Drury,
Joanna Goodman, Henry Israeli, Bruce Ledbetter, Akiko Matsumoto, Mayumi
Reinhard and Melora Zaner-Godsey.


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Steve Bradley, Assistant Prof. of Visual Art
University of Maryland Baltimore County, FA219C
Visual Arts Department, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
410.455.2721*Fax 410.455.1053*
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