Ben Vida // Vocal Trio LP [COLOR]

アメリカの実験音楽家Ben Vidaが、2024年10月にイタリアの実験レーベルBlumeからリリースしたレコードです。

声のみによるコンテンポラリー〜ドローン2曲を収録。クリーム盤です。

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以下、レーベルによる解説です。

"2022年の春、Vidaはドイツのブレーメンに滞在し、振付家のフェイ・ドリスコルとダンス作品の共同制作を行っていた。時間があり、自由に使えるスペースがあり、歌手でもある2人のダンサー、エイミー・ゲルヌクスとロッテ・ルドハルトと一緒にいることを知ったVidaは、喉頭をオーディオ・パス（マルチハーモニックまたはピュアハーモニック）として利用する一方、各人の口を与えられた音色の音色と響きを彫刻するフィルターとして概念化する、という作品のアイデアを思いついた。 Vidaは、タイポグラフィの楽譜を非言語的な社会的枠組みに発展させるにはどうしたらよいかを考え、1ページのテキストを下書きした。これが「Vocal Trio」の楽譜となった。

「Vocal Trio」のデュレーションを抽象化する脈打つヴォーカル・ドローン（酔わせるような、ハーモニー豊かなロングトーン）の中核にあるのは、社会的空間としての音楽に対するVidaの敬意である。作曲という行為が認識される条件に挑戦し、コントロールを放棄することで、集団的な音楽制作という行為を通して解放を求める実験なのだ。 この作品のリハーサルは、3人のパフォーマーがただたむろし、互いを知り、自然なダイナミクスを楽譜の形に反映させた。

Vidaの『Vocal Trio』は、多くの点で創造的で画期的であるだけでなく、陶酔するほど美しく、聴きごたえのある作品である。ステファン・マシューによるマスタリング、ブラッドフォード・ベイリーによる特別依頼のライナーノーツ、そして作品のビジュアル・スコアを提供するレポレロ・インサート付きの200枚限定盤でBlumeからリリースされたこの作品は、2024年に我々が出会うであろう最も重要なコンテンポラリー・レコードのひとつである。 "

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Ask us for digital files. 12" cream vinyl. Includes original insert that functions as an OBI. Edition of 200. 

Tracklist:

A                      Bremen Trio - Part One
B                      Bremen Trio - Part Two

Blume:

"Ben Vida first emerged during the mid 1990s within a loose constellation of experimental musicians, centred around a performance series of improvised workshops at the Myopic Bookstore in Chicago, alongside Jim O'Rourke, Kevin Drumm, Chad Taylor, and the other future members of Town and Country - Jim Dorling, Joshua Abrams, and Liz Payne - the band within which he would gain widespread recognition over the following years. Like many other members of that scene, Vida remains a restless product of a fleeting context - Chicago during the 1990s and early 2000s - continuously undermining concrete notions of idiom and signifier within a practice that witnessed him rendering bristling abstractions within Pillow, glacial melodies with Town and Country, the art-rock mayhem of Bird Show Band, and the angular, driving indie rock of Joan of Arc, before becoming immersed in a practice of systems based synthesis, beginning in the 2010s, that guided much of his first decade of output as a solo performer and composer.

As early as 2013, he began to incorporate acoustic sound sources - specifically the human voice - into his work. It was this shift, evolving and refining itself over the last decade, that underscores radically the leap in his practice represented by “Vocal Trio”, a work that encounters Vida composing for the human voice with the ideas that allow for synthesis - transferring the underlying concepts and structures of both subtractive and additive synthesis to the acoustic realm - without using a synthesiser.

During the Spring of 2022 Vida was in Bremen, Germany, collaborating on a dance piece with the choreographer Fay Driscoll, when the production fell into delays. Finding himself with time on his hands, a space at his disposal, and the company of two dancers - Amy Gernux and Lotte Rudhart - who were also singers, the idea for the piece - to utilising the larynx as audio paths (multi-harmonic or harmonically pure) while conceptualising each person’s mouth as a filter to sculpt the timbre and resonance of a given tone - began to take shape in his mind. Considering how typographical scores might be developed into a non-linguistic social framework, Vida drafted a single page of text - what became the score for “Vocal Trio” - accompanied by a set of harmonic suggestion and loose parameters, seeking a core meaning from each word's phonic make-up by each of the three singers (Vida, Gernux and Rudhart) singing as slowly as possible.

At the core of the pulsing vocal drones - intoxicating, harmonically rich long-tones - that make up the duration abstraction of “Vocal Trio”, is Vida’s regard for music as a social space. It is an experiment that seeks liberation through the act of collective music making, by challenging the terms through which the act of composing is perceived and then relinquishing control. The piece’s rehearsals were simply the three performers hanging out, allowing their knowing each other and natural dynamics to contribute to its form as the score, before recording during a single afternoon at the end of a number of days sharing company and space.

Creatively visionary and groundbreaking on numerous terms, as well as being intoxicatingly beautiful and remarkably listenable, Ben Vida’s “Vocal Trio” represents a striking step forward for one of the most ambitious and outstanding sonic artists working in the United States today. Issued by Blume in a highly limited vinyl edition of 200 copies mastered by Stephan Mathieu, featuring specially commissioned liner notes by Bradford Bailey and a leporello insert offering the piece visual score, this is hands down one of the most important contemporary records we’re likely to encounter in 2024."

Artist : Ben Vida 

Label : Blume

CAT no : BLUME 24