Andy Graydon & Luke Martin // Transparent Archipelago CD
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アメリカの実験音楽家Andy GraydonとLuke Martinが、2024年9月に東京の実験レーベルZappakからリリースした共作CDです。
以下、レーベルによる解説です。
"Andy GraydonとLuke Martinはともにアメリカで活動する作家。Andy Graydonは生態系についての研究を中心とした活動をおこなっており、映像作家としても活動している。Luke Martinは無音に着目した音楽における演奏家/作家として活動している。本作は主に無音と微音、そして時折非常に強い低音によって空間が形づくられている。彼らはフィールド録音を「作曲の素材」として利用し、音と静寂の領域を「島」に見立てた。編集によってそれぞれの「島」の個性が表面化し、独自に作業してきた2人の音が混ぜ合わされることによって、結果として非常に繊細かつ強靭な作品へと仕上がった。"
レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more zappak releases available at Tobira.
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CD in cardstock sleeve + plastic cover.
Tracklist:
1. Island 1 14:40
2. Island 2 10:58
3. Island 3 13:11
4. Island 4 07:58
5. Island 5 12:45
Artist statement by Andy Graydon & Luke Martin :
"To begin, we picked five field recordings from our sound archives; three from Andy and two from Luke. These recordings became our 'material in common' for composing the piece.
Next, working independently we each made our own ‘islands,’ areas of sound and silence set in a frame of duration. To create an island, each of us selected five excerpts from the original sound sources. We then gave each sound a ‘vertical cut’ in the form of a narrow band pass filter, limiting it to a specific frequency range; then applied a ‘horizontal cut’ to each sound in the form of a time edit, choosing a section from the original field recording. This resulted in floating slices of sound laid out topographically within a total duration to form the features of each island.
Finally, we superimposed each of our individual islands over one another, like transparencies or photographic slides, allowing their interaction to create new patterns and alternations between sound and silence; opacity and transparency; land, sea and sky.
After finishing the piece, we came across a poem by Fernando Pessoa (The Fortunate Isles, 1934) that seems to articulate something we were doing musically. In each listening there is the hope that a novel 'island' will arise, somehow still linked to the indeterminacy symbolized by the sea, to the indeterminacy of our everyday lives, our archives, and the choices made along the way toward this composition: a 'fortunate island,' a 'land with no place' - something we may only stumble upon in a state of half-sleep, half-knowing, eyes and ears half-closed. "
Artist : Andy Graydon & Luke Martin
Label : zappak
CAT No : zappak-015
アメリカの実験音楽家Andy GraydonとLuke Martinが、2024年9月に東京の実験レーベルZappakからリリースした共作CDです。
以下、レーベルによる解説です。
"Andy GraydonとLuke Martinはともにアメリカで活動する作家。Andy Graydonは生態系についての研究を中心とした活動をおこなっており、映像作家としても活動している。Luke Martinは無音に着目した音楽における演奏家/作家として活動している。本作は主に無音と微音、そして時折非常に強い低音によって空間が形づくられている。彼らはフィールド録音を「作曲の素材」として利用し、音と静寂の領域を「島」に見立てた。編集によってそれぞれの「島」の個性が表面化し、独自に作業してきた2人の音が混ぜ合わされることによって、結果として非常に繊細かつ強靭な作品へと仕上がった。"
レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more zappak releases available at Tobira.
----------------------
CD in cardstock sleeve + plastic cover.
Tracklist:
1. Island 1 14:40
2. Island 2 10:58
3. Island 3 13:11
4. Island 4 07:58
5. Island 5 12:45
Artist statement by Andy Graydon & Luke Martin :
"To begin, we picked five field recordings from our sound archives; three from Andy and two from Luke. These recordings became our 'material in common' for composing the piece.
Next, working independently we each made our own ‘islands,’ areas of sound and silence set in a frame of duration. To create an island, each of us selected five excerpts from the original sound sources. We then gave each sound a ‘vertical cut’ in the form of a narrow band pass filter, limiting it to a specific frequency range; then applied a ‘horizontal cut’ to each sound in the form of a time edit, choosing a section from the original field recording. This resulted in floating slices of sound laid out topographically within a total duration to form the features of each island.
Finally, we superimposed each of our individual islands over one another, like transparencies or photographic slides, allowing their interaction to create new patterns and alternations between sound and silence; opacity and transparency; land, sea and sky.
After finishing the piece, we came across a poem by Fernando Pessoa (The Fortunate Isles, 1934) that seems to articulate something we were doing musically. In each listening there is the hope that a novel 'island' will arise, somehow still linked to the indeterminacy symbolized by the sea, to the indeterminacy of our everyday lives, our archives, and the choices made along the way toward this composition: a 'fortunate island,' a 'land with no place' - something we may only stumble upon in a state of half-sleep, half-knowing, eyes and ears half-closed. "
Artist : Andy Graydon & Luke Martin
Label : zappak
CAT No : zappak-015
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