FAULT SUMMARY [2015] is a music composed by mangling sounds from different recorded soundscape of Metro Manila. These are sounds that were recorded in different locations of the city by people who participated from an open-call [Project Bakawan: Listening Terminals]*, and then were given as raw materials to the composer to serve as primary sound sources on creating this composition, and then was included in an exhibition entitled Reroute: Resituating Site-Specific Works.**

Music software was utilized as a tool to musically deconstruct some of the submitted audio files; this includes the process of cutting and splicing digital sound to conceptually arrange an ambient collage of fragmented sonic artifact. And also some basic manipulation on sound texture by adding effects and loops.

The musical structure of the piece is a combination of mechanical and organic sonic glitches from shared activities of people, nature and machine, and at the same time, familiar and unfamiliar elements and movements of sounds coming from everyday encounters within the network of an urbanized and immersive environment. This could be sounds coming from the busy streets of Manila to a crowd of commuters rushing home from work/school. Industrial sounds produced by a construction site somewhere in Quezon City. Or rhythms of an afternoon rain with contrast to the humming sound of air-conditioning appliances installed in every condominiums in Makati, and so forth.

The piece was imagined to evoke some sort of a ‘musical memory’ on various ‘sonic errors’, which always considered by many as dissonant or sometimes environmental sounds that is highly aversive. Although these sounds are often taken for granted because of their undesirable characteristic, it is important to sonically reconsider and musically explore their tone quality and color as a potential source for musical curiosity and inspiration, which became vital on the re-imagination on the aesthetic value of sounds in relation to the resulting ideas on soundscape.

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* PROJECT BAKAWAN [Feb-Mar 2015, University of the Philippines, Quezon City] is a collaborative art festival and community-building initiative that aims to increase awareness of current environmental issues and strives to foster a sustainable future.

( www.projectbakawan.com )


* LISTENING TERMINALS, a component of Project Bakawan curated by Dayang Yraola, is a project that directs the audience to pay attention to auditory characteristics of urban spaces and to recognize how it affects construction, reconstruction and deconstruction of social dynamics.

( www.facebook.com/events/1009129555782404/ )


** REROUTE: Resituating Site-Specific Works [Mar 2015, Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines, Quezon City]

Curated by Dayang Yraola, Reroute features site-specific works (with the exception of the sound works) that were only shown once prior to this exhibit. These works were previously located in non-traditional art venues, and are now resituated in the UP Vargas Museum. These works are from Listening Terminals (includes works by Erick Calilan’s “Fault Summary”, Syo Yoshihama’s “Untitled”, and Kabaitan Bautista’s “Pagbanat”) shown on February 2015 in UP Diliman, Transi(en)t Manila (includes Mark Salvatus’ “Ghost Writer”, Ian Carlo Jaucian’s “Laser Crabber”, Kok Yoong Lim’s “G-Loom Project”, Renan Ortiz’s “Padyak” and Johanna Poethig and Chris Brown’s “Music of the Lost Cities” shown on November 2014 in Escolta, and Hantong (works by Joseph Gabriel and Kulay Labitingan’s “Headquarters” and Czar Kristoff’s “Wave #1”) shown on December 2014 in Escolta.

Reroute aims to create discourse that tries to extend the process of creation (or artistic production) of works beyond their first exhibitions.
(www.facebook.com/events/1397956793848396/?fref=ts )

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Special thanks to Ryan Diolola and Arvie Bartolome for giving technical assistance.

‘Fault Summary’ is composed by Erick Calilan, a sound artist and experimental musician who creatively explores on the territory of illogical practice and manipulation of electronic hardware machines, electronic instruments and consumer-based electronic devices. This is the first time he incorporates music production software to his work.


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