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Sound Inventing & Inside Inventor Workshop with Arnont Nongyao and Khvay Leung.
This project is a part of artist in residency program “Pisaot artist residency”
Curated by Vuth Lyno.
at Sa Sa Art Projects. Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Organized by Sa Sa Art Projects team.
This workshop presents how to observe objects and sound around us at The White Building, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Participating students learn about basic sound instruments and means of interaction in their community in order to make sound. The workshop also presents “sound inventor” Khvay Leung—a self-taught watchmaker and electrician—who will share about his sonic artifacts and his amplifier invention with minimal and found components.
This project marked the first time Arnont met Khvay Loeung and visited Loeung's home. During the visit, Arnont discovered a DIY amplifier that Loeung had built. Inside the amplifier, the wiring was chaotic, with some parts held together using cigarette packs attached to the transformer. Despite its disorganized interior, the amplifier had its own unique system and functioned well, albeit with constant noise. This noise reminded Arnont of the conditions inside the White Building, where Sa Sa Art Projects is located. Similarly, the interior of the White Building has a disordered network of connections but manages to function self-sufficiently, much like the wiring inside Loeung's amplifier.
Additionally, Loeung serves as a master of funeral ceremonies, using his self-made amplifier to project sound at local funerals. Inspired by this, Arnont invited Loeung to conduct a workshop and discuss the creation of his amplifier with the youth living in the White Building. Arnont also held a workshop on sound recording.
Following the workshops, the students went out to record the voices of people living in the White Building, using Loeung's amplifier mounted on a bicycle to amplify the sound. The amplifier emitted noise, but this noise acted as a new language created by the amplifier, blending with the voices of the White Building's residents. Once the recordings were complete, the students rode the bicycle, carrying the combined sounds of the residents and the noise from the amplifier, around the streets surrounding the White Building.
Overall, those sounds resemble the sounds of people protesting. A few years after this workshop finished, the White Building was demolished to make way for a new complex. The sounds recorded during that time thus serve as an auditory history of the White Building.
Photos by Dara Kong and Tnonra
info : http://www.whitebuilding.org/en/film/sound-inventing-inside-inventor-2015
Sound Inventing & Inside Inventor (2015)
