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2018年4月16日月曜日

[195] Sverre Larssen ‎- Wind Harp Recordings 1976-1977


Label: O. Gudmundsen Minde
Catalog#: OGM003
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Norway
Released: 2017
DISCOGS

A Nordavinden I  16:05

B1 Nordavinden II 5:37
B2 Sønnavinden 5:05
B3 Interviews with Sverre Larssen 6:24

ノルウェー人ビジネスマンSverre Larssen(スヴァラ・ラーシュン)が70年代に製作したウィンドハープに関する初めてのレコーディング・ドキュメント。ラーシュンがアマチュアの工学技術を基に自由な発想で自作したというこのハープは、やや斜めに傾いた板状のボディに12の弦を平行に張りわたしたツィターのような形態で、ボディに取り付けた4つのコンタクトマイクによって弦振動を増幅する仕組み。収録された3つのトラック「北風 I」「北風 II」「南風」は、砂浜と草地が広がるノルウェー西端の地=ヤレンとセレストランダで録音されたもの。北海から吹き付ける風を受けて発生する風切り音と、うねるように変化する弦のハーモニックな持続音に紛れて、かすかに波の音も聞こえます。加えて、B3は77年11月に国営テレビNorge Rundtと地元のラジオ局で放映されたインタビュー。これまでラーシュンのハープ・レコーディングを単独で収録した作品は存在せず、本国でもマイナーな作家だったそうですが、70年代にはLiv Dommersnes、Åse-Marie Nesse、Kjell Bækkelund、Ketil Bjørnstadといった作家・音楽家の作品の中で用いられ、最も知られているJan Garbarek(ヤン・ガルバレク)の77年作「Dis」では、アルバムの冥想的なサウンドを決定付けるほど印象的な効果をなしています。この編集盤のリリース元であるO. Gudmundsen Mindeは、Lars Mørch Finborud(ラーシュ・モルク・フィンボルド)とLasse Marhaug(ラッセ・マーハウグ)によって昨年新たに立ち上げられたレーベル。フィンボルドはヒップホップのアーティストとして90年代後期にキャリアをスタートさせ、過去10年間はPlastic Strip PressとPrisma Recordsを運営し、ノルウェー国営放送局NRK、ヘニーオンスタッド美術館、アルネ・ベンディクセン・スタジオなどのアーカイヴから、ジャズ、ソウル、プログレッシブ・ロック、アバンギャルド、電子音楽に及ぶ北欧音楽を発掘・紹介してきた名プロデューサー。方やマーハウグは、Jazkamerのメンバーとしても知られる重鎮ノイズ・インプロヴァイザー。「Dis」などのクレジットからこのような稀有な音源を深堀りするに至ったとみられますが、昨今のレアグルーヴ的探究とアンビエント・リスニングの相関を暗に示すような一枚にも感じられます。


This LP marks the first ever release of Sverre Larssen’s infamous wind harp recordings from the late 1970s -tonal long-form drone music akin to the works of Paul Panhuysen and Ellen Fullman. In the early 1970s the Norwegian businessman Sverre Larssen decided to construct a wind harp at his cabin at Sele, Jæren on the west coast of Norway. Using his free imagination and amateur engineering skills, Larssen constructed a harp with 12-strings, which was brought to vibrate by the wind. Based on the principle of the electrical guitar, Larssen amplified the strings using four contact microphones and then recorded the sounds direct to tape. Word about Sverre Larssen’s instrument began to spread and during the 1970s notable artists such as Liv Dommersnes, Åse-Marie Nesse, Ketil Bjørnstad, Kjell Bækkelund and Jan Garbarek utilized the sounds of Larssen’s wind harp. O. Gudmundsen Minde, in close collaboration with Sverre Larssen’s family, have unearthed the only remaining tapes, photos and interviews documenting the fabled wind harp. OGM is proud to present this important rediscovery in the canon of Norwegian experimental music. ▲


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2018年4月10日火曜日

[193] Bernard Baschet & Michel Deneuve - 4 Espaces Sonores


Label: Transversales Disques

Catalog#: TRS04
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: France
Released: 2018 (1982)
DISCOGS

A Resurgence 27:00

B Errance 19:30
C Polykinese 20:25
D Iranon 19:08

The Baschet brothers are known worldwide as creators of Sound Sculptures, fantastic shapes of moulded metal and glass, which combine the visual arts with music. François Baschet had always been fascinated by acoustics, by the relationships between the shape and material of an intrument and the beauty of its sound. Bernard Baschet was passionately interested in contemporary music and firmly believed that such instruments were the proper tools for modern music, for they offered to the artist and performer a personal means of expression denied by electronic devices. Together the brothers began to design and produce Sound Sculptures, which could also be regarded as musical instruments. Circa 1965, Bernard worked alongside Pierre Schaeffer as a member of the GRM (Musical Research Group) on the elaboration of what was to become Schaeffer’s "Traité des objets musicaux" (Treatise on Musical Objects). The Baschet brothers also created structures and instruments of all sizes, including bell towers, windmills and fountains, using the natural elements of wind and water to make music. Bernard Baschet was especially proud of his pedagogical work amongst deprived and handicapped children, with the instrumentaium made up of fourteen pieces.


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2018年1月28日日曜日

[182] Mario Ciccioli's Aeolian Sculptures


Mario Ciccioli(マリオ・チチョリ)は、1984年以来風の音を焦点をあて、自身でデザインしたエオリアン・ハープ(伊語でアルペ・エオリア)によるサイトスペシフィックなインスタレーション作品の制作やパフォーマンスを中心に活動しているトゥスカーニア在住の彫刻家。88年7月に音楽フェスティバル「タイムゾーン」で披露されたチチョリのエオリアン・ハープの野外録音素材を基本的な雰囲気として用いて、Pier Luigi Andreoni(ピエル・ルイジ・アンドレオーニ)とFrancesco Paladino(フランチェスコ・パラディーノ)がシンセやサンプラーを駆使して作り上げた作品「Aeolyca」。音響彫刻ドローンと空想民俗アンビエントのコラボレーション。



チチョリの公式チャンネルより。1989年、ジュネーブのペルル・デュ・ラック公園内にある自然史博物館に設置された3つのエオリアン・ハープのインスタレーションの模様。音楽は「Aeolyca」の1曲目が使用されています。



2013年、モンテフィアスコーネの旧パプアル刑務所の中庭に設置されたインスタレーション「オラ・ダリア(空気の時間)」。アートイベント「Arte Libera Tutti」のための作品。


2015年7月27日月曜日

[988] Willi Kellers - Himmel Auf Erden


Label: FMP
Catalog#: FMP S-16
Format: Digital, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 2015 (1985)
DISCOGS  BUY

1 Klanginstallationen (a) Windharfe 01:46

2 Klanginstallationen (b) Eisenklopfer 01:04
3 Klanginstallationen (c) Materialschlange 01:11
4 Klanginstallationen (d) Erdeisen 0:39
5 Die Halle 04:31

独ベルリンのフリージャズ・レーベルFMPのカタログ中、一風変わったインスタレーション音源。作者は同レーベルからAchim KnispelやPeter Brötzmannらとの即興作品を発表している打楽器奏者Willi Kellers(ウィリ・ケラーズ)。オリジナルは1985年4-5月にミュンスターで開催されたエキシビジョン「地上の天国」に際して発行されたというカタログ付属の7インチ盤で、2015年7月にFMPのデジタル部門Destination:OUTよりデジタルリイシュー。「Klanginstallationen」(独語でサウンドインスタレーションの意)は、エオリアン・ハープのドローン、ガラガラとぶつかりあうHarry Bertoia風の金属製オブジェクト、水を入れた器を擦りあわせた(?)ヒョヒョという音など、4つの自作音響彫刻から発せられた1分程度の音サンプルを収録。B面にあたる#5「Die Halle」はそれらマテリアルが重なりあい交錯する、おそらく展示用の音源、またはその状況を示した4分半で、目が眩むほどの猛夏、蝉の大群が鳴き犇めく林中のような
音像を呈しています。録音はJost Gebers、マスタリングはOlaf Ruppが担当。


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2014年9月2日火曜日

[908] Will Menter - Wood Wind...


Label: Resonance
Catalog#: res07
Format: CD, Album
Country: France
Released: 2003
DISCOGS  OFFICIAL

1 Touching Rain Songs 6:48
2 Out Of Phase 9:35
3 Paroi 2:45
4 Curved Ascending Air 7:08
5 Slate Sections 1 6:18
6 Slate Sections 2 4:01
7 Slate Sections 3 8:24
8 Slate Sections 4 6:13
9 Paroi Abdominale 6:32
10 Wood Wind 3:44
11 Coupled 2:12
12 Bruine 5:24
listen #2

This collection combines live recordings made underground in the Carrière de Vignemont in Loches, near Tours in France, (where four of my sound sculptures are housed permanently) with recordings made in my home studio. Like Bees in the Bathroom, the emphasis is on long tracks, and these explore the sound of the quarry as much as the sculptures and instruments. All the sounds apart from the saxophone and the quarry wall, Paroi and Paroi Abdominale, are made by sound sculptures and instruments I have made. Out of Phase and Slate Sections exploit a different technique. The sounds are all made by my slate marimbas, but they are sampled and then played by a keyboard and sequencer. - www.willmenter.com

bio.
Musician and visual artist, Will Menter has forged his own path in cross-art-form work through his innovative combinations of improvisation with composition and the creation of new instruments, sound sculptures and site-specific installation. Starting from a jazz base in the 1970s, his work has since developed to a point where music and sculpture are inseparably intertwined. From 1975 until the early 80s Will was one of the driving forces behind the Bristol Musicians’ Co-operative, which explored new areas of free improvisation and cross-art-form collaboration. Will’s musical projects included Wind and Fingers, Community, Both Hands Free and Overflow. He directed two ambitious cross-art-form projects in the 90s. Cân Y Graig – Slate Voices explored the world of slate and the quarries of North Wales and was the first extensive use of Will’s slate marimbas, while 1994’s Strong Winds and Soft Earth Landings was a collaboration with Zimbabwean artists based around the mbira. Since 1998 Will has been living in France and has developed his sound sculpture work, concentrating on the untransformed sounds of natural materials. There are permanent exhibitions of his work in nature at Hoscheid in Luxembourg, and underground at the Carrière de Vignemont, Loches, and in the town of Montbéliard. He has released a series of four solo CDs that juxtapose the sounds of his sculptures with recorded natural sounds and instrumental music. His fifth CD, Song Sculptures (2004) was a series of songs written for the voice of Sianed Jones together with eight of Will’s sculptures, percussion and double bass. More recently he has been developing collaborations with dancers Aurore Gruel and Mure Natale, and with ceramicist Jane Norbury with whom he has developed many of his sound sculptures and performances. In December 2007 Will published a book of photos and texts with an accompanying CD, called Bits of Wood. He is currently working on the sequel to that, consisting of 3 audio CDs and a 200 page book, entitled “Always Sound”. Perhaps the overall development in his work is a gradual move away from the idea of projecting music to an audience, towards the idea of inviting people to share and explore a sensory experience.

2014年6月22日日曜日

[884] US Steel Cello Ensemble - In A State of Flux


Label: A State Of Flux
Catalog#: ASOF10
Format: Cassette
Country: US
Released: 1988
DISCOGS  OFFICIAL

1 Interview, with previously unreleased material 29:23

2 On-air Performance 28:29
download: Remastered April 2007.

This cassette release documented the in-studio visit of the legendary Robert Rutman, aka US Steel Cello Ensemble, during my program at WCUW-FM. We were joined by David Prescott, an esteemed electronic musician in his own right, for his production assistance. Robert Rutman talks about the evolution of his music and the invention of his instruments and gives a glimpse into the history of this music in the context of the 1960s avant garde. His warm personality and off-kilt sense of humor dominate the discussion, and his booming baritone voice commands your attention. 

Later, in the studio, the ceiling had to be dismantled to accommodate his enormaous single stringed steel cello, which comprised a single heavy gauge steel wire, a large piece of sheet metal, several turnbuckles and a large iron frame. Once it was assembled, Mister Rutman was able to insert his body between the string and the resonating sheet to play the instrument. The string was so long and the range of register so large that it required him to climb up and down steps to reach all of the notes. The performance is punctuated with his voice harmonizing with the sounds of the Steel Cello. - www.paulcollegio.net - A STATE OF FLUX: The Archive

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2014年6月21日土曜日

[883] Ellen Fullman - The Long String Instrument


Label: Apollo Records

Catalog#: AR 118501
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1985
DISCOGS  OFFICIAL

A1 Woven Processional 11:29

A2 Langzaam 6:13
B1 Swingen 10:17
B2 Memory Of A Big Room (For Matthew) 3:42
B3 Dripping Music 2:23

カンザスシティ美術研究所で彫刻を専攻した後、80年代初頭よりNYブルックリンを拠点に「Long String Instrument」(長弦楽器)の製作/実験を始めた、メンフィス出身の音楽家Ellen Fullman(エレン・フルマン)。「長弦楽器」は長さ20mを超える金属弦製で、ロジン(松脂)を塗った指で触れ、歩きながら摩擦を与え、ドローンを発生させるというもの。録音作品では自費出版のカセットをはじめ、Phill NiblockやPhilip Cornerなどが所属するExperimental Intermedia Foundation、ポスト・ミニマル作品で知られるNew Albion、Pauline OliverosのDeep Listeningなど聴覚芸術における重要なレーベルからリリースされていますが、本作「The Long String Instrument」は、Paul PanhuysenのレーベルApolloより85年に出版された初作品。
ワイヤーを用いた非音楽的なサウンドアート/インスタレーション作品と趣向は異なり、綿密に調律された(より楽音的な)楽器として演奏されていて、ごく小さな音まで実に巧みに操りながら、打楽器類とも呼吸を合わせたスリリングなアンサンブルが繰り広げられています。豊かな倍音を含む音色の美しさはもとより、パフォーマンスの映像を見ると、綱渡りのように緊張を絶やさない(舞踏や能楽の様にも見える)立ち振る舞いも表現に不可欠なもののように感じます。


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Ellen Fullman (b. Memphis, Tennessee, 1957) is a composer. Known principally for music she has written for an instrument she invented, the long string instrument, Fullman studied sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute. She has performed with the Deep Listening Band and Paul Panhuysen. Tuned in just intonation, the long string instrument is played by walking along the length of incredibly long strings and rubbing them with rosined hands. This produces longitudinal vibrations, and her music explores the nodes of vibration. Her early pieces were notated with choreography. - Wikipedia

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Ellen Fullman performs at MOCAD

Event Locations No. 2 (excerpt): Real time video feed from wrist-mounted wireless cameras.


Long String Instrument Terminal NY (1983)

[882] Steve Hubback - The Quest


Label: Spoof

Catalog#: 0002
Format: Cassette
Country: Denmark
Released: 1993
DISCOGS  OFFICIAL

1 The Quest 9:40

2 Natt Skulptur 4:55
3 Over The Treetops 4:16
4 As The Snow Falls 16:57

90年代以降、シンバルやゴングなどのメタル・クラフト/音響彫刻のデザイナーとして、ヨーロッパを巡りながら各地のレーベルに作品を残しているウェールズ出身の打楽器奏者Steve Hubback(スティーヴ・ハバック)。墓地や森の中など特殊な場所での演奏、自作楽器に見られる魔術/元始宗教的モティーフなど超俗なアイデアをもつ方で、ゴングの彫刻はヒーリング/セラピー/シャーマニズムなどスピリチュアルな分野で支持されているといいます。「The Quest」はデンマークのマイナー・レーベルSpoofから発表された93年のソロ作。Hammer Harp、Bowed Steel Harp Sculpture、Tuned Gongs、Fire Gongs、Ice Chimesなどの金属製楽器を用いて、それらがもつスピリットに導かれるまま音楽の原初へ回帰する、ミニマリスティックなエスニック・アンビエント。


bio.

It’s a long story, so here’s the short version. I lived as a drummer and percussionist from 1980 to 1990. I was always looking for special sounds and in 1990 in Scandinavia I began to learn metal craft so I could create my own instruments. Within 2 years I had some of the North’s best musicians performing on my creations. I had a powerful lucid dream in which I saw a drummer playing on a Norwegian mountain. His drum set was otherworldly and instead of playing a ride cymbal he played a living bronze Dragons wing. The sound was enchanting and magical and the audience were in trance. The dream stayed with me and after much thought and experimentation I forged my first Dragon cymbal sculpture in the early 1990′s. This was how I invented and pioneered cymbal and gong sculpting. Since then my path unfolds in mysterious ways. My gong sculptures are used by many people involved with shamanism. Sound healing/therapy and ocultists. My gongs have sounds and energies unlike any others. Deep, powerful and resonant. They are excellent healing and meditative tools. I’ve been making very high quality Sistrums for years. Each bronze bell is forged into shape, tuned and lathed. I also spend a lot of time in various countries finding suitable wood for my Sistrums. Their clarity, resonance and enchanting sounds have found favour with many involved with Shamanic healing work. - extracts from Biography | Steve Hubback official


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The Quest: Spoof CD edition (1993)


Steve Hubback & Jorgen Cremonese - It's My Head (Studio Urania, 1987)
listen 'Symphonic Departure'


Steve Hubback's It's My Head - The Joy Of Life (Studio Urania, 1989)
feat. Andrea Centazzo, Pere Oliver Jörgens, David Moss

2013年1月17日木曜日

[599] Walter Sons - Glasmusik


Label: Disco-Center

Catalog#: DIC 342 300
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 1982
DISCOGS

1 Glasmusik I 22:32

2 Glasmusik II 21:57

ドイツの打楽器奏者ワルター・ソンズ指揮、ガラス楽器のアンサンブル。

グラスハープ/グラスハーモニカ風のクリスタル・ドローン、
12人の演奏者によって奏でられたとりどり創作楽器、ガラスの樹林に囲まれるような即興風景を収録。
空を背景に、風景がガラスの球面に屈折して映し出されるジャケットも美しいです。


この作品の他にメタルパーカッションのアンサンブルによる作品も残しているドイツの特殊打楽器奏者Walter Sons。これは82年に発表した活動初期の作品。音響彫刻風に立体配置された大小かたちも様々な壺や食器や切れ端などの硝子を10名以上の奏者たちが叩いたり吹いたり擦ったりといった具合に奏でたもの。硝子特有の音と光の虚ろな気配に満ちた集団即興から、白昼夢みたいな危うい響きに満ちた硝子ドローンまで、有為転変の変幻を魅せる大曲2曲収録。
SHE Ye,Ye Recordsより 抜粋

Recordings: Februar to April 1982 Gesamthochschule Kassel, Gießhaus • 5.9.1992 Engelsburg-Gymnasium, Kassel

The 'Glasmusik-Ensemble' was previously named 'AG Neue Musik' which was initiated by Prof. Walter Sons.

Conductor – Walter Sons

Performer – Andreas Burckhardt, Brigitte Sons, Hermann Beuchert, Jürgen Schlüter, Michael Filgraebe, Michael Leipold, Peter Massely, Rolf Denecke, Susanne Grabis, Thomas John, Ulli Götte, Walter Sons
http://www.glasmusik-ensemble.de/

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