Label: Pro Musica
Catalog#: PCC 9023
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1992
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1 Tableau 1 (Tape) 06:13
2 Tableau 2 (Tape) 10:08
3 Tableau 3 (Tape and Percussion) 07:20
4 Tableau 4 (Tape and Percussion) 03:39
5 Tableau 6 (Tape and Percussion) 04:47
6 Tableau 7 (Tape and Percussion) 13:02
7 Tableau 8 (Tape and Percussion) 06:25
8 Tableau 10 (Tape and Percussion) 04:30
9 Epilogue (Tape) 02:04
ダンスやドキュメンタリー番組のための音楽を手掛けるほか、教育向けのパーカッション楽譜制作や、ドラムスクールの運営（打楽器専攻の教授としては国内初）まで広く関わる、ノルウェーの電子音響作曲家/打楽器奏者のKjell Samkopf（シェル・サムコフ）。1986年作の「Aqua」は「降る、揺らぐ、はねる、泡立つ、凍る」など水の様々な様態やサイクル、水の倍音スペクトルをテーマに、数秘術や占星術を用いながら作曲/編集。テープ加工された水音のコンクレート風アンビエンスと、同じく打楽器奏者のRob Waring（ロブ・ワリング）との2セット用意された数多くの打楽器によって、水の様態のようにテクスチュアの変化する9パートが収録されています。
Kjell Samkopf: Aqua for Tape & 2 Percussion Players by Kjell Samkopf was released Jan 19, 1992 on the Pro Musica label. Kjell Samkopf: Aqua for Tape & 2 Percussion Players contains a single disc.
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Water as a sound source has fascinated me for many years. Water appears in many different forms, and all these forms have their own sound: flowing water, dripping water, rain, waves, waterfalls, splashing, bubbling or cracking in the form of ice. We encounter all these different sounds in our everyday lives, as people have done throughout time. The sound and the experience of water have throughout history been used consciously. Many are aware of the calming effect of sitting and listening to waves breaking on a beach, or to the sound of a waterfall. Modern technology has made it possible for our generation to listen to the sounds of nature in a new way. The time element can be changed. We can listen to the sounds at a faster or slower tempo than the original, or we can even listen to them backwards. We can focus on certain parts of the overtone spectrum, we can change the order of the sounds, or we can just use the sounds as they are, but put them in an unfamiliar context. Abstracting sounds from our environment, such as water, and putting them into a musical context fascinates me. Thus we can experience the sound of a drop of water as pure sound, instead of a warning of leakage. As another main element of this piece I have let calculations from numerology decide how various musical parameters will develop. Numerology is an old occult science, which, on the basis of a person’s name and date of birth, can say something about his personality and destiny, as astrology can on the basis of the positions of stars and planets. I have used the word "water" in different languages as basic material: the Latin AQUA, the English WATER, the Norwegian VANN and the French EAU. Using the different combinations of numbers and pitches derived from these words, I have arrived at melody, chords, rhythm and form. I do not believe I have come closer to the phenomenon of Water by doing this, but numerology gives me a new way of thinking about music. I had two special instruments constructed for this piece, which I have called Sea Wheels. They are made of Plexiglas and were built by the sculptor Tor Hvammen. The tape for Aqua was realized in Ny York Studio in Oslo with technician Haakon Manheim. Kjetil Bjerkestrand assisted me as programmer and operator of the computer and synthesizer systems Fairlight and Emulator. I would like to express my deep gratitude to these people for their invaluable help during the making of the tape. The work Aqua was commissioned by the Collage Dance Company and choreographer Lise Nordal in 1986. The work was originally a part of a multi media performance consisting of dance, music, video, slide projections, light and sceneography. Aqua had its world premier at the Black Box Theatre in Oslo, November 21, 1986.
Kjell Samkopf / Translation Rob Waring
via Kjell Samkopf website
