Crooked River, 1st and 3rd persons
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Project Summary
Crooked River, 1st and 3rd persons is a 48-hour recording and broadcasting project that re-engages the multiple legacies of the Cuyahoga River - its industrial fires, marine life losses, engineers’ ambitions, immigrant dreams, serpentine navigations - with its contemporary forms of agency. The river’s complex template as an industrial, cultural and natural waterway is re-inscribed as a sonic way-finding system through the city grid of downtown Cleveland and the venue of Ingenuity Festival 2008. This project in first and third person intertwines macro forces and events of this dynamic waterway with the performative dimensions of the festival, harnessing nimble recording and broadcasting technologies to enable new methods of dialogue. Participants encounter these dynamic flows of natures and cultures via radio broadcasts, eavesdropping and interactive landmarking, and collectively embody - and co-emerge with - the past, present and future Cuyahoga River.
Press
"Scouting: Artists On Reconnaissance Mission For Ingenuity" by Michael Gill Free Times, May 28, 2008
Ingenuity Preview Party Press Release
Documents
Original proposal, 22 January 2008
Revised proposal, 17 March 2008
Recording Document, June 4, 2008
Sounds & Compositions
Raw Samples from Field Recordings (MP3 Format)
Composition 1 - June 4, 2008 (Apple Lossless Format)
Composition 3 - June 4, 2008 (Apple Lossless Format)
Composition 11 - June 4, 2008 (Apple Lossless Format)
Local/Regional Information
"The Cuyahoga," by William Donohue Ellis
Cleveland Rowing Foundation River Guide
Real-time USGS water data for Cuyahoga River
Thanks/Sponsors
- James Levin, Executive Director
- Paula Grooms
- Jared Earley
Flats Oxbow Association - Voice of the Flats
- Tom Newman
- Vicci Simpkins
- Russ Eckles
Cuyahoga River Community Planning Organization - Remedial Action Plan
- Jim White
- Bill Barrow
- Matt Previts
- Bob Schwartz
Events
Website/Development
Crooked River Songlines website - LIVE
Broadcasting Information
US Frequency Allocations: The Radio Spectrum
Radio Frequencies in Cleveland
Sonic Samples
Annea Lockwood's 1971 Sound Map of the Hudson River (sample) | Dr. Borror's (Ohio State University) Bioacoustic sound collection | Captain Nye's 1937 recordings of or about Cleveland | Audio excerpt from Margaret Cogswell installation, Cleveland Fugues | Various YouTube videos of or about Cuyahoga River | Big Foot Researchers Organization Report of BF vocalization near Cuyahoga River | Edison's film of "Giant Coal Dumper" in Cleveland (not audio, but maybe transformable?) | Song by Randy Rewman called "Burn on, Big river" | Local news report on Cuyahoga River cleanup | "Beautiful Ohio" | Garrison Keillor oral history of Cuyahoga River on "Prairie Home Companion"
