Tania Candiani

Syreny/Sirens. 2018. Site specific Performance of a musical score based on ships sirens, cries of sailors, sounds of wind and water interpreted by 441Hz Choir. Video installation.
This sound action was based on the interest in using the sound of the voice (specifically with choral groups) to interpret, replicate or deconstruct sounds that are not typical of the human voice, such as sounds of machines, of nature, of mathematical processes, mechanical and digital.
This project was built in three stages: a sound recording behind closed doors, a live act on the pier of Nowy Port, Gdansk, and a video installation. Syreny (Sirens) started with the idea of replicating with the voices of men and women the sound of the sirens of the ships.
This live-action was created in Nowy Port, a port which for years has ceased to be essential, and with it, it has imprinted of nostalgia and abandonment in the whole neighborhood, in which the choir “sang” the arrival of the boats back to the dock.