artist: Tomas Korber/Keith Rowe/Gunter Muller
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artist: Anthony Guerra/Matthew Earle
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label: L’Innomable
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artist: 4G (Keith Rowe/Oren Ambarchi/Christian Fennesz/Toshimaru Nakamura)
title: Deformed Veil (excerpt – 5’30” to 29’00”)
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artist: Arek Gulbenkoglu
title: Point 4
CD: Points Alone
label: Impermanent
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artist: Graham Halliwell/Mark Wastell
title: Vibra #3
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label: Confront Collectors Series
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Yeah congratulations also from me. When you played a track from Cistern by DOUBLENDS VERT i immidiatelly thought on a record by Olivieros/ Dempster/ Pa called The Deep Listening (Na022) released on New Albion label (www.newalbion.com)- a kind of newageycontemporaryclassicaletc... label for modern intelectual hippies. Anyway the concept is quite similair, even some instruments used, namely accordion of course but you have also trombone, whistling, voice, metal pieces, metal pipes, etc ... thrown in the cistern. Strangely how the description from the site resemble the things being said in the show about Cistern, a record that is at least 15 years younger than Deep Listening. Anyway the concept doesn't surprise me since as i understand the Doublends Vert are also from the West Coast of US:
''With the advent of synthesized electronics and computers, it seems that just about any sound can be achieved on one's desktop with the proper equipment and a fast enough processor. However, sometimes that's not what creating music is all about. Sometimes creating music is about being strapped into a harness and lowered into an empty two million gallon, 186-foot diameter water cistern. This is precisely what experimental artists Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, and Panaiotis did one foggy morning in October of 1988. The result, Deep Listening, is a unique recording wherein the location of the recording is as much an instrument as any of the objects used to create the sounds heard in each piece.
In Suiren, whistling, a garden hose, and the human voice combine with the cistern's 45-second natural reverberation to create a disorienting and hypnotic blend of space and sound. It could be a call to prayer, a song of mourning, or the rumblings of an ancient culture. The soothing and unnerving sounds of Suiren ebb and flow in a way that is at once organic and alien: listening to the swirling layers, you'd swear that there is an organ, or a synthesizer, or at least a load of digital processing involved. But you'd be wrong. In fact, this eerie, atmospheric music is a remarkable combination of attentively interacting performers and a very special acoustic space.''
all best LukaZ
David and LucaZ, thanks for the support!
I never said Doublends Vert were original, I just liked the record ;) Sounds like it may have been the same place. Thanks for the info.
You mentioning Pauline Oliveros reminds me of the recording of Gavin Bryars' "The Sinking Of The Titanic" that came out on Point in 1994. According to the sleevenotes, "elements" of it were recorded in a Napoleonic water tower in Bourge, France (and an art deco swimming pool in Brussels, too). Maybe we can put a whole show together of music recorded in, ahem, resonant spaces...
Hey Luka, David, thanks for listening and thanks for the support...
The doublends vert track was new to me too as it was Al's pick, and the odd thing about playing stuff on the radio (you may recognise this Luka) is that you don't really get the chance to listen to what you are playing... so even though I did try and listen for a bit I can't really say what I thought of the dv track. Will seek it out and listen with interest soon though.
Hope you listen again next week, we hope (fingers crossed) to have something from the Sound323 vaults to play.
Oh and Luka, if you feel left out at not getting a mention on the show, I'm afraid you need to have had a baby girl in the last week or two to qualify for a mention... so tell the girlfriend to get started soon I think...:)
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