The city offers on a daily base thousands of random frequencies that remind me of
the civil defense siren. The moments when my ears are looking for the source create
additional coding and refinements to what is considered to be a civil defense siren.
I cut the civil defense siren into three parts (the rise/the middle/the fall) and examined
how the sound is traveling in the emergency stairwell and how my memory can be
embedded in this fragmented experience.
This performance was made as part of a class assignment and there was no option to
take proper video documentation. Attached is the sound file of the expderince.
The Script:
Participants in the show reached the 8th floor emergency stairwell. When they entered
the stairwell the sound started:
Speaker 1 hidden in the stairwell: Narrator
Demanding attention
Luring to obey
The fine line between sanity and insanity
If you hear a siren - walk down to the 7th floor
(5 speakers on the 4th floor)
speaker 2: 10 seconds: Beat
speaker 1, 3, 4, 5, 6: 30 seconds: the rise
speaker 2: 10 seconds: Beat
5 seconds: silence
speaker 2: 10 seconds: Beat
(I am standing in the 4th floor)
Screaming:
Demanding attention
Luring to obey
The fine line between sanity and insanity
If you hear a siren - hold your hands to the side of your body, bow your head and close
your eyes
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peaker 1, 3, 4, 5, 6: 30 seconds: the middle
speaker 2: 10 seconds: Beat
5 seconds: silence
speaker 2: 10 seconds: Beat
(while walking up to the 6th floor)
Saying:
Demanding attention
Luring to obey
The fine line between sanity and insanity
If you hear a siren - look at me
speaker 1, 3, 4, 5, 6: 30 seconds: the fall
speaker 2: 10 seconds: Beat
5 seconds: silence
speaker 2: 10 seconds: Beat
(An actor is walking down from the 8th floor holding a birthday cake)
Hayom yom huledet
Today is the birthday
Hayom yom huledet
Today is the birthday
Hayom yom huledet le'Dana
Today is the birthday of Dana
speaker 2: 10 seconds: Beat
(I say to the actor)
Demanding attention
Luring to obey
The fine line between sanity and insanity
Every time i heard a siren, all I wanted was for someone to open the door for me and
say: "It's all over - we're back to normal."
speaker 2: 10 seconds: Beat
The door of the 6th floor is opened, an actor is saying:
"It's all over - we're back to normal."
(Me and the first actor are standing still and not moving after participants left the
stairwell).
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