Olga Bell - Voluntary Remediation

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Olga Bell • “Voluntary Remediation”

Pleasant Run, one of Indianapolis’s six waterways, is a devastating environmental story of the rapid onset of industry and its environmental fallout. This reality lives alongside the simultaneously passionate, prideful, and painful histories that are a reality for many in Indianapolis. Olga Bell is conceptual in her approach to music and creates work at the intersection of chamber/classical and electronic music. Using data collected from secondary sources found using Google Earth, Youtube.com, and map searches, Voluntary Remediation captures a sensory interpretation of Pleasant Run with a track that asks: “Is Pleasant Run a pleasant place?” Snippets from a local newscast and the Coke Plant imposes a sonic “interruption” of recordings from the creek environment. These effects are followed by a listing out of its chemical pollutants, read aloud over an abrupt shift in the music. The gurgling synth at the end of the track is effectively Bell’s way of “playing” a water quality data set from the Marion County Health Department. Voluntary Remediation uses sounds to track historical interruptions as an urgent call to action for the remediation of polluted and abused waterways.

GPS Location: 39.752333, -86.118080
Duration: 08:08
Year: 2015
Commissioned as one of six original music pieces of the Streamlines project, funded by the National Science Foundation.

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from Sound Expeditions - Indianapolis, released April 9, 2018

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