Luke Martin & Noah Ophoven-Baldwin // Nighttime Block TAPE

アメリカの実験音楽家Luke MartinとNoah Ophoven-Baldwinが、2024年11月に中国・北京の実験レーベルZoomin' Nightから10本限定でリリースした共作カセットです。

フィールドレコーディングやギター、コルネットによる物音インプロ1時間を収録。DLコード付属。

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Cassette in norelco case.
Edition of 10 copies.

Tracklist:

1. this is what we grasp 33:30
2. closed to me forever closed to me (for Joanna Russ) 29:38

From the artists:

" These two pieces are duos written for each other in summer 2023. We were at a cabin in Cass Lake, Minnesota where Noah was living for the summer - Luke visiting for the weekend. We were finishing up the pieces - sitting at an old wooden dining table in the kitchen, handbooks to the side, bugspray, papers, a plate or two - and hoping to record that evening, by the river. Cicadas, birds, bugs, young wild rice, little fish, slow water, dusk.

This was the second time we have written duo pieces for each other, though playing tons together in the meantime. It is in these moments of writing pieces where thinking about the idea of a duo, and each other, and writing for each other, concentrates, fills with questions and spills into whatever is happening in our lives (or the other way around). We were reading, at the time, a Joanna Russ novel (Noah) and Simone Weil's writings (Luke), each of which inspired, in part, the pieces - or helped us think about certain questions. Our last set of pieces together was titled "Aperture." It seemed, a decision arrived at separately, that this set of pieces would have to do with the opposite - something closed, blocked, stymied, stalled, torn. An instance of the aperture eclipsed, the opening a closing. How does the duo, the conflicting ideas of its oneness and twoness, relate to this? What is the relation between aperture and its opposite, between one and the other, this and that, now and not-now? Weil says "when we have learned to hear the silence, this is what we grasp more distinctly." Russ says "closed to me forever closed to me."

We, fittingly, did not end up recording that evening. Luke dropped his ebow in the lake, the bugs were relentless, and we ended up being called back to the cabin—Another time! Noah brought out a chessboard and, dog curled up beside, we had a drink and played chess. "

Artist : Luke Martin & Noah Ophoven-Baldwin

Label : Zoomin' Night

cat no : ZMY 080