transmission end.
it’s a girl!
Starting to collect those golden oldies I missed out on back in the day- this tune is sheer class!
De waard goes easy:
JAMES MCDOUGALL & HIROKI SASAJIMA - INJYA (CD by Unfathomless)
Both of these artists can be regarded as ‘new kids’ on the block of field recordings, coming to the foreground in recent years with a plethora of releases on labels as Sentient Recognition Archive, U-Cover, Dataobscura, Test Tube, Resting Bell and Mystery Sea - the latter doing a solo release by both of them. On their subdivision Unfathomless they have a collaborative disc of music, based on field recordings made in their own locale (the Akigawa Valley/Otake Limestone Caves, Japan in Sasajima’s case and The D’Aguilar Mountain Range, North West of Brisbane, Australia in McDougall’s case) and then ‘equally developed’. ‘The sensitive issue of not occupying the same token sites was acknowledged and it was opted instead for a common geologic context’ - whatever that means. Its a release that has some questions: for instance: is there any processing and if so to which extent? How does this collaboration work anyway? Are recordings from both locations simply played together, or has
there
been any kind of mixing going on? Its all not easy to say. I think there has been some form of processing, mainly just EQ-ing, bringing out more high or low end frequencies, especially in the third and fourth pieces. Also I think that in all four pieces they have searched for specific characteristics of the provided sounds and set them together, with some extent of mixing. I also kept thinking: why should I bother thinking of what they did or didn’t do: these four pieces are very good, a culmination of field recordings that, once together, make great sense. Not minimal, hardly changing music, but vibrant, always on the move, full of tension, evocative and beautiful. Excellent, if not always the most original, but that is perhaps quite hard. (FdW)
Address: http://www.unfathomless.net
IHab 026:
Inskip
JAMES McDOUGALL
IHab026
All recordings sourced on a 4x4 trip from Tewantin, through Cooloola National park and terminating at Inskip point, the gateway to Fraser Island. QLD Australia. ZoomH4, contact mics and limited processing. November 2010.
- James McDougall
James McDougall creates sound universes with textures and detail and on Inskip he elevates this elements to an almost tactile level. Inskip gives to his work an evident twist where the sounds of nature acquire an intensity and power only capable to achieve through processing. His aesthetic choices work like a magnifying glass on reality pushing the limits between natural and artificial and establishing a “more real than reality” dynamic that the listener could inhabit and be acquaint of through his sensible experience.
- Impulsive Habitat 01. Inskip (48:28) 90,4Mb DOWNLOAD 00. Artwork (ZIP) 1,21Mb DOWNLOAD 00. Complete package (Artwork + Mp3 Sound files) (ZIP) 89,3Mb DOWNLOAD 00. Complete package (Artwork + FLAC Sound files) (ZIP) 268Mb DOWNLOAD
IHAB:
Credence
CHRISTOPHER McFALL, DAVID VELEZ
IHab025
On this release both artists explore the “musical element” on field recording composition by heavily processing the sound captures and by incorporating composed and found sounds with melodic and harmonic qualities to the final piece.
“Credence” reaches into the dark and melancholic element found in McFall’s recent works and ventures Velez into a territory he briefly visited on his release Funza where he involved instrumentation for the first time. Melancholy and despair seem to inhabit the ghostly environment that the piece builds through 38 minutes.
Credence” is the artists’ second mutual project after the 2007 piece “0018345” featured on the
collaborative release “Data transfer 2” reissued by IH on 2011.
01. Credence (38:13) 117Mb DOWNLOAD
00. Artwork (ZIP) 769Kb DOWNLOAD 00. Complete package (Artwork + Mp3 Sound files) (ZIP) 81,6Mb DOWNLOAD 00. Complete package (Artwork + FLAC Sound files) (ZIP) 179Mb DOWNLOAD
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©2011 David Velez
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©2011 Christopher McFall/David Velez
©2011 Impulsive Habitat
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