17.1 ch ambisonic 3D sound composition in exhibition space
Opening and artist talk: Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 8.00 p.m. @ Pogon Jedinstvo, Trnjanski nasip bb, Zagreb
The installation is open April 6-8, 2017 from 5.00 to 8.00 p.m.
Free entrance.
Evacuation Plan (2016), new artistic project by Toni Meštrović recorded on Jadrolinija's classical ferry boat called Tijat. Through 18 synced sound channels, this multichannel (ambisonic 3D) sound composition represents a sound documentation of the Tijat ferry as an acoustic object or an instrument. The Tijat ferry has been built in 1955 in Split's shipyard called Brodograđevina. Main characteristics of this relatively small ferry include a one-propeller engine, a large chimney in the middle, above the engine room, and an architecture that resounds with the roars of the machine, the sounds which spread from every opening, each in its own way. All segments of the powerful sound of the engine are compacted. They reverberate through the space of the ferry and, like the sounds of an orchestra, they are received as a whole. The production process included recording of different sounds of the ferry as it was sailing, preparation of fragments of the ambisonic 3D composition in the studio, as well as in an ambisonic 3D space of a larger scale, in 17.1. channel surround. During the presentation of the artwork, the gallery space is transformed to an auditive ferry object from the sound and spatial point of view. Evacuation Plan is, so to speak, an evacuation of ferry sounds from Tijat, one of the last ferries of its kind, and one which is soon to sail on its very last journey.
acknowledgements
:| Mikula and Maroje, Nadija Mustapić, families Meštrović and Mustapić, Vedran Perkov, Hannes Hölzl, Brian Willems, Sunčica Ostoić, Damir Kustić, Robertina Šebjanič, Hrvoje Pelicarić, Zrinka Kursar, Bepo Čapalija, Sanja Lovrić Kontuš, Slavica Afrić, captain and crew of Tijat ferry, Jadrolinija.
Toni Meštrović, born 1973 in Split, is a video artist working predominantly in form of video and sound installations. He graduated with a Graphic Arts degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1999, where he produced graphic arts, sculpture and installation. Due to his interest in electronic audio-visual media, he studied Video/Digital Imaging with prof. Valie Export at the International Summer Academy for Contemporary Art in Salzburg in 1997, and completed a two-year postgraduate diploma in Media Art with prof. David Larcher and prof. Anthony Moore at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne in 2004. Video, sound and audio-visual installations produced during Meštrović’s postgraduate studies explore his personal perception of the sea, and the island where he grew up. After his return to Croatia in 2004, his work deals with themes of cultural heritage, identity and the transformations that have occurred in Dalmatia due to the period of transition. Some of his continuous thematic preoccupations are the assimilation of the linear and cyclical time and the exhaustion of a type of narrative that we are used to and expect in our quotidian lives, as well as a wide range of the topic of change, either as a record of evaporation of water like in a close circuit video installation, or as a commentary of social change.
Since 1992, he has taken part in group and solo shows, as well as video festivals, in Croatia and internationally. He has been awarded scholarships and awards, such as the Young Artist Award by the Croatian Artist Association and the Second Prize at the T-HTaward@MSU.hr exhibition in 2013. He lives and works in Rijeka and Kaštela, and is Associate Professor at the Arts Academy University of Split, Department of Film and Video.
contact:
tm@macaknara.hr
www.macaknara.hr
