Label: Regional Attraction
Catalog#: REG007
Format: Digital, Album
Country: US
Released: 2021
1 Damn the Flood 9:39
2 Flood Prototype One 15:42
3 Flood Prototype Three 9:48
4 Flood Prototype Two 10:34
5 Bottomlands 5:08
ポストミニマルなスコアを手がける現代作曲家であり、一方でヘナヘナな歌声を披露する80'sフェイクなベッドルームポップ作家でもある。そのどちらにも本腰が入っていて、実にミステリアスな人物だなと思います。
スウェーデン・ウプサラ出身、現在はニューヨークを拠点に活動するAdrian Knight(エイドリアン・ナイト)。本作「Damn the Flood」は、サンフランシスコ・ベイエリアの現代バレエカンパニーPost:Balletの委嘱により制作された作品で、2017年3月に同市の文化芸術センターSOMArtsにて、Robert Dekkers振付によるダンスパフォーマンスの一部として初演されました。単なるダンスの伴奏にとどまらず、音と身体が空間の中で対等に作用し合う、没入型の舞台芸術として構想。「流れる水の儚さと永続性」をモチーフに、ひとつの楽章に5つの異なる和声構造がシームレスに組み込まれており、Juno 6とRhodesの柔らかなドローン、ヴィブラフォンなどの生楽器の繊細な響きと電子音響の残響処理が溶け合うようにブレンドされています。多作かつ変幻自在な作家ゆえに、その全体像は掴みがたいところがありますが、本作だけを切り取ってみても、彼自身の美意識や緻密な構築力が静かな音像の奥からひしひしと伝わってくる。純度の高い音世界を堪能できる一作です。
He is a contemporary composer of post-minimalist scores, while also crafting a sort of faux-80s bedroom pop with delightfully limp vocals. There is a genuine commitment to both sides of his craft, leaving an impression of someone truly mysterious.
Adrian Knight is originally from Uppsala, Sweden, and is currently based in New York. This work, Damn the Flood, was commissioned by Post:Ballet, a contemporary ballet company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and premiered in March 2017 at the city’s cultural and arts center, SOMArts, as part of a dance performance choreographed by Robert Dekkers. Conceived not merely as an accompaniment to dance, the piece was envisioned to create a space where sound and the body occupy the performance space as equals, resulting in an immersive performing art. Guided by the motif of "the fleeting nature of running water and the timeless," five distinct harmonic structures are seamlessly woven into a single movement, where the soft drones of a Juno 6 and Rhodes, the delicate resonance of acoustic instruments like the vibraphone, and electronic reverberations blend almost imperceptibly.
Given how prolific and versatile he is, his complete artistic vision can be elusive to grasp. Yet, even when listening to this work on its own, one can quietly feel his distinct aesthetic and meticulous sense of architecture breathing beneath the calm soundscape. It is a piece that invites you to gently savor an exquisitely crafted sonic world.
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