Urban Forest Bathing: Oakland Aquatic Park, by Onye Ahanotu

Urban Forest Bathing: Oakland Aquatic Park

by Onye Ahanotu

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This project consists of field recordings captured and composed entirely within the city limits- offering an alternative experience of Oakland. Recordings are processed in the artist work flow before being fed to an algorithm to produce an unsupervised generative soundscape. Borrowing from the concept of forest bathing, this recording intends to immerse the listener in the natural essence of modern day Oakland.

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Urban Forest Bathing- Oakland Acoustic Park (2020)

A listening experience meant to provide acoustic augmentation to the industrial urban landscape and a connection to the site-specific essence of a place. A city, named after the trees that dotted the landscape, is now known for more metaphorical wildlife, industrial activity and handling the lion’s share of the Bay Area’s port activity. Like many cities, Oakland has become a concrete expanse, currently filled with a cacophony of sounds from construction, freeways, neighbors and the background hum of persistent Nature. With few and far between greenspaces insulated from the psychological grounding of the evolving city around it, acoustic design and perception augmentation is used as an experimental ecological-hack.

This project consists of field recordings captured and composed entirely within the city limits- offering an alternative experience of Oakland. Recordings are processed in the artist work flow before being fed to an algorithm to produce an unsupervised generative soundscape. Borrowing from the concept of forest bathing, this recording intends to immerse the listener in the natural essence of modern day Oakland.

Side A (High Interaction): A bath of layered interaction acts to displace your surroundings and transport you into the digital-natural world. Ends with space for re-composition before Side B.

Side B (Low Interaction): In contrast to Side A- a more isolated exploration of the sculpted sound recordings. Interaction parameter tuned to allow for lower interaction of individual recordings.

The listening experience can be had anywhere, of course, however the listener is suggested to playback with the aid of in-ear or over-ear noise cancelling headphones.

Recorded at Lake Merritt, Middle Shore Park, Pill Hill and Joaquin Miller Park. Made possible by the generous financial support of the City of Oakland’s (2019-2020) Cultural Arts Grant Program.

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released September 22, 2020

Onye Ahanotu (b. 1987) is an artist (and scientist) constantly working across discipline and fields. This trans-disciplinarian is best known for his combinations of scientific, natural and cultural perspectives to design hierarchical. His artistic foundations lay in sketching, painting, photography, dance and remixing of music. Grounded in a range of practices, and with an unquenchable thirst for learning, Onye is constantly experimenting with integration of diverse perspectives into his works. His recent experimental sound project bares his work’s signature as a psychological layered exploration of materiality, contextual design and patterns (from ordered to the verge of disordered).

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