Photo: Boudewijn Bollmann

On a hot, hot day in Eindhoven, BALTAN Laboratories and workshop leaders Wendy Van Wynsberghe and Peter Westenberg (Constant, Brussels, BE), with Julien Ottavi (APO33, Nantes, FR), hosted Angela de Weijer, Olga Mink, Danielle Roberts, Jan van den Dobbelsteen, Mini Smulders, Sarie Hermens, Sarah Matot, Niels Bergmans and Lucas van der Velden for a one-day Electro-Magnetic Field (EMF) Orchestra Workshop.

After a morning and good part of the afternoon spent building and designing and winding and soldering their own EMF antennae (and a number of trips to the electronics store to remedy a slight technical difficulty with the amplifiers), participants took to the city for a collective intervention on a walk between Strijp-S and the centre of Eindhoven.

Wendy van Wynsberghe made a number of sound recordings during the intervention in Eindhoven that day:
http://sound.constantvzw.org/EMF_at_Baltan_Eindhoven/

[SND] EMF_50hz.ogg 05-Jul-2010 17:07 785K -> this is an add display in which the image switches by turning around, just in front of PSV
[SND] EMF_PSV.ogg 05-Jul-2010 17:25 531K -> this was an rfid scanner (to enter) next to the doorbells of PSV -> while hearing the emf someone of the group also pushed on some doorbells…
[SND] EMF_camera.ogg 05-Jul-2010 17:10 1.1M -> the first group EMF recording of the camera of Peter
[SND] EMF_cash_machine.ogg 05-Jul-2010 17:13 3.5M -> what does taking some cash out of the wall sound like
[SND] EMF_parking.ogg 05-Jul-2010 17:22 1.1M -> the sound of the place where you pay your parking ticket
[SND] EMF_tunnel.ogg 05-Jul-2010 17:28 5.3M -> the longest group recording, where everyone participated, in the tunnel with the escalator going to the motorbike/bicycle parking. The sound you hear is mostly the sounds of the lights

Julien Ottavi also made some great recordings:
http://www.apo33.org/records/doku.php?id=electromagnetic_recordings

In the evening, participants came back for more in-depth presentations of the work of  Wendy, Peter and Julien. We were also joined by almost 40 participants of the Autonomy Summer School hosted by the Van Abbemuseum and Onomatopee in Eindhoven. Jane Hardjono wrote up a report of the evening on her blog The Dossier.

For more images from the day, see Constant’s gallery:
http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=33280

Or more from BALTAN Laboratories: http://www.flickr.com/photos/baltanlaboratories/sets/72157624436217798/

Thanks to Wendy, Peter and Julien and to all of the great participants! And thanks to Clare Butcher for bringing all of the wonderful summer school participants to BALTAN!

Tags: art, collaboration, copyleft, sound

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