Wavescape

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Edwin van der Heide (1970) studied Sonologie at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He graduated in 1992. He is a composer and performer primary of electronic music and designer of sound installations. He is working continuously on developing new musical instruments, new techniques for performance and new methods of sound generation/production to develop his own new musical language. Van der Heide has worked extensively in the group Sensorband, together with Atau Tanaka and Zbigniew Karkowski (the latter with whom he also recorded various duo CD’s, under which is one for Bake Records) and has a trio with Florentijn Boddedijk and Anne Welmer. His installations were shown at V2 and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam among other places in the Netherlands.
Since 1995 he is teaching at Interfaculty Sound & Image from the Royal Conservatory & Royal Arts academy in the Hague, Holland.
‘Wavescape’ is his first major release under his own name.

From the linernotes: Wavesacpe is a sound installation inspired by the sound of underwater environments. I was approached by CELL Iniators of incidents to make a contribution to their Homeport project focusing on Rotterdam as a harbour city. Homeport was part of Rotterdam Cultural Capital of Europe 2001. There are many boats traversing Rotterdam on the Nieuwe Maas going inwards Europe and back. One of the beautiful locations to experience this within the city is the Wilhelmina Kade. I became fascinated by the fact that the boats pass by with almost no audible sound. In the past I had been doing some experiments with underwater sound and I became interested in researching the sounds which boats produce. Wavescape is an installation which makes the underwater sound audible at the waterside.
The goal was not to just make the sound from underwater acoustically audible but also to translate the underwater space into a perceivable acoustic space. I’ve been researching acoustic and electronic wave front recording, synthesis and reproduction with the installations ‘a World beyond the Loud-speaker’ and ‘Impuls #6’. These installations use a surface of forty independent loudspeakers. Wavescape is using the wavefront technique as well but in the shape of a line array. Twenty-four hydrophones (underwater microphones) are placed over a horizontal line in the water along the waterside. Each hydrophone is connected to its own amplifier and speaker. There are twenty-four speakers placed in a line on the waterside. Together the 24 speakers make an acoustic reproduction of the spatial shape of the waves from the underwater sound. This creates a live reproduction of the underwater sound space. The result is very perceivable and almost touchable. From the waterside you listen into the underwater space. You hear an incredible depth and width. The speed of sound underwater is about four and half times faster then the speed of sound through the air. The sound underwater reaches you than the pure acoustic sound. This creates a possibility for interesting interferences between both of them. Wavescape establishes the sound which belongs to the view of the passing boats.

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