{"id":4588,"date":"2022-06-12T19:37:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T17:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2022.festivalm3.cz\/?page_id=4588"},"modified":"2022-09-25T13:51:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T11:51:03","slug":"peter-cusack-eng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/2022.festivalm3.cz\/peter-cusack-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Cusack – ENG"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The station has been in operation since 1882. In 2016 it was reconstructed. The station is, among other things, a place where Railway Day is celebrated, when it is possible to see historical trains with steam locomotives. The specific character of the station is co-created by the excursion atmosphere of the place and also by the specific concrete arch of the Bran\u00edk Bridge over the line.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Peter Cusack\u00a0(UK) is based in London and Berlin. He is a field recordist, musician and sound artist with a long interest in the sonic environment. In 1998 he initiated the \u2018Favourite Sounds Project\u2019 to discover how people interact with the sounds of the places where they live. It has been carried in cities worldwide including, London, Beijing, Prague and Berlin. His project \u2018Sounds from Dangerous Places\u2019 (described as\u00a0sonic journalism) investigates the soundscapes of sites of major environmental damage such as the Caspian oil fields, the Chernobyl exclusion zone and the Aral Sea, Kazakhstan. During 2011 he was a guest of the DAAD Berliner K\u00fcnstlerprogramm.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Peter Cusack
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Peter Cusack focuses on environmental sound and acoustic ecology; he makes sound recordings in the field and in the wild. He is involved in projects involving community arts, focusing on research into sound and our perception of a particular place, and making documentary recordings in areas with a specific sonic character, such as those affected by an environmental disaster. The space of a railway station is\u00a0 in general very inspiring in terms of possibilities relating to such a wide range of artistic concepts. Through the artist\u2019s recordings of the station’s surroundings, the visitor gets a distinct range of information, insights differing from visual images or textual messages. This different type of message makes one perceive the place in an unusual way, a different experience of space. The audio recording fixes a specific period of time, a reality that no longer exists; the visitor thus becomes conscious once again of a specific place through the recording of what is already absent \u2013 not as a structure of fixed points from which relationality is derived, but as a network that is constantly happening (Miroslav Pet\u0159\u00ed\u010dek). Reality becomes an organism, an “actual entity” \u2013 we are part of the organism and live simultaneously with it. (Alfred North Whitehead) This way of perception can make one aware of multiple levels of sensitivity. It can awaken in a subtle way the level of individual sensitivity which is not given space in the usual stereotypical rush of existence and is displaced. The choice of the Bran\u00edk train station is not accidental. It retains the historical importance of its station building; its location in between several distinctive poetic sites is exceptional. The nearby landmark \u2013 the building of the Branik Brewery, the presence of the river, the public transport terminal and wild thickets serving as refuge for various bird species can all be inventively conveyed through the artist’s sound “insights”. The recordings also reflect a historical fact: the existence of the so-called \u201cS\u00e1zava River Pacific Express\u201d train on the route from Bran\u00edk via Vran\u00e9 nad Vltavou and \u010cer\u010dany which is still operated on holidays as a steam train.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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