A project (Book+CD) by Yannick Dauby about sounds and stories of low and middle altitude mountains of Yilan, North East of Taiwan.
The book (in English and Chinese) features interviews with five persons who have special knowledge and experience about the forests of Taipingshan and Fushan : Lue Kuang-Yang, Kacuzi Hacyo, Wu Chiu-Hsiang, Lai Chun-Piao, Lai Bo-Shu. Notes about listening and sound recording practice by Yannick Dauby. Identification of animal sounds with Chinese, English and Latin names.
The 75 minutes audio CD contains field recordings realized in Fushan Botanical Garden and Taipingshan Forest Area between 2013 and 2015, edited and mixed in 2016.
“Yannick Dauby, originated from Mediterranean Alps and currently based in Taiwan. Sound and location, sound and community, sound and ecology, are the main topics of his projects. Overflows is a composition based on field recordings in natural, industrial and urban environments dealing with the overwhelming of listening. Fans of Francisco Lopez, Jean-François Laporte or Eric La Casa will be delighted.”
Yannick Dauby returns to Discrepant for Vol2 of his ongoing study of the sounds and sights on the Penghu Archipelago, Taiwan. ló-kó -chhù - means, in Taiwanese, Coral House. Penghu Experimental Sound Studio Vol2 uses interviews, field recordings, found objects and subtle electronic manipulation to transpose Yannick’s impressions of the island’s natural beauty. All sounds, field recordings and improvisations on electronic instruments, are from Penghu, Taiwan. Interviews of children extracted from the film “Childhood of an Archipelago”, by Yannick Dauby & Wan-Shuen Tsai. The second session of Penghu Experimental Sound Studio was located in Husi village, during Summer and Autumn 2015 whilst the album was assembled in the hills of Taipei, during the Spring 2016.
Tsit lâu tsui means, in Taiwanese, a cycle of tide. Yannick Dauby is a French sound artist based in Taiwan since 2007. He relentless explores the soundscapes of his adopted island through field recording, audio documentaries and community projects. He also composes electroacoustic music and he's often found performing live using found objects, analogue devices and digital processing. He has created soundtracks and sound environments for contemporary dance, public art and films as well as being involved in various ecological and local traditional activities. Dauby stayed in Peng-Hu, an archipelago located in the Taiwan Strait during several months in the first half of 2013. His daily activities included beachcombing, study and documentation of the reef animals, field recording, some teaching and also composing musique concrète in a temporary and probably the first experimental music studio, settled in Shili, a narrow village just between the inner and outer seas. From this old building he hear the seashores and announcements of the itinerant sellers as well as the rituals from a temple nearby. Immersed in this natural and cultural environment, Yannick composed the two sides on this record, using the sounds of the underwater fauna, the omnipresent waves, soundscapes of harbours, music played during funerals, shortwave radio broadcasts , in-site or indoor improvisations using old artefacts collected on the beaches and various sessions using analog electronic instruments. This LP becomes kind of a aural sketchbook of his stay and wandering in these islands on the invitation of the Penghu Citizens Foundation. Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker @ D&M. Pressed at Optimal. 300 units, black vinyl.
This year 2015, Yannick Dauby and Wan-Shuen Tsai were part of a public art project at National Taiwan University. Yannick’s work was a creation project related to the sound universe of bats and led to a series of public events, including soundwalks and exhibitions in the campus. The blog chiroptera documented the activities of field recording and creation, some in collaboration with students. Here is a new output of this project, released as a CD.
Echoes as Messengers is a kind of domestic sound installation, an electroacoustic composition which develop itself slowly and sparsely, a “Discreet music” inspired by echolocation.
It has been composed with the ultrasonic voices of the Japanese House Bat (Pipistrella abramus) recorded in Taipei (Spring 2015), transformed and combined with the help of analogue electronics (notably the infamous Blippoo box by Rob Hordijk, the Sidrax organ by Peter Blasser and other modular synthesizers) and digital processing.
Please try to listen to it at low volume, or at dusk, or windows open.
This project as been informed and influenced by the remarkable works of Donald Griffin, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor and David Dunn.
Two compositions (Spring 2014) related to the landscapes in the Mediterranean Alps. “Lignite”. Also called brown coal, this mineral was extracted in the mine of Vescagne, located near Vence, until 1953. Recordings : Bézaudun-les-Alpes, France, January 9th 2014. “Caïre Archas”. The toponym of this mount, located in the Mercantour area, relates to its shape : steep and protruding. But aren't moutains all analogue ? Recordings : Col de Salèse, January 15th 2014.
Publication by Atelier Hui-Kan and Horse Dance Company. “Since 2008, French sound artist Yannick Dauby is collaborating with Horse, a taiwanese male-only contemporary dance company. During these years, he created the soundtracks for the following performances : Bones (2008, National Experimental Theater, Taipei). Growing Up (2009, Theater of Taiwan University of the Arts, Taipei). I (2010, National Experimental Theater, Taipei and Theater in Tainan). Faceless by Chou Shu-Y (2011, National Experimental Theater, Taipei). The sound material used for these projects is quite unusual for dancers and it became one of the specificity of the shows of HORSE : recordings of animal voices, urban soundscapes, industrial textures, electroacoustic abstractions… sounds of HORSE is a glamorous publication documenting this collaboration. Its two CD contains more than two hours of sound works, organized and remastered for a domestic listening, and a double-folded booklet with high-quality photography of the dancers with texts by choreographers and dancers Chen Wu-Kang and Chou Shu-Yi, and Yannick Dauby. This double-CD has been published in collaboration with HORSE and Atelier Hui-Kan”.