taken from ET-100
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ET-100 | Fermium

Yoichi Ichikawa - Well Tuned Metal (Excerpt) | ET-100

Asāvāri is the North Indian raga performed in the late morning hours, which evokes the moods for anguish, love and melancholy.

I have used textile pattern, based on various repetitions, which could be related to time perception in Indian cosmology. 

According to Indian philosophical tradition, time is cyclical, but not in terms of different Western interpretations. Indian cyclic time doesn’t involve a mechanical repetition of particular. Even cycles are the same in type, but they are not the same in detail.

In order to achieve it, each performer has been encouraged to improvise by changing some details within the framework of the cyclical time. Music unfolds in a process of continuous development and it constantly renewed in performance of cycle inevitably follows cycle.

The World Premiere was performed by Ensemble I’Itineraire: Julie Brunet-Jailly, (flute), Juliette Adam (clarinet), Lucia Peralta (viola) and Manasonics: Benoit Delbecq (piano) and Steve Arguelles (percussions) at Sonic Art Research Centre, on 25 November, Belfast, the Northern Ireland, in 2023.

The work was commissioned by the du Ministère de la Culture/Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France in 2023.

Asavari

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La instal·lació sonora que acompanya l’exposició “És quan camino que hi veig clar” vol ser un element de reflexió sobre l’acte fotogràfic i la seva capacitat d’abstracció respecte la realitat sonora que ens envolta. La peça es composa de 16 gravacions de camp realitzades a les localitzacions on s’han pres les 15 fotografies i la sèrie “fotografia in itinere” que conformen l’exposició. Després de cada paisatge sonor, el silenci ens situa en l’atemporalitat fotogràfica que l’espectador ha vingut a experimentar. Així, l’activitat del fotògraf esdevé recerca abstreta i parcial; i l’obturador, vestit de pretesa atemporalitat, imposa silenci.

El conjunt de gravacions és alhora un mostratge d’ambients sonors de la nostra ciutat. Uns paisatges que permeten prendre consciència de la dimensió acústica que ens envolta i de la realitat que predomina en l’anomenat “espai públic”. Aquest espai, on esperaríem un ampli espectre d’activitat social i cultural, esdevé un espai envaït per sons recurrents de la circulació motoritzada; un espai liberalitzat que denota la amnèsia social predominant en els canvis històrics de la quotidianitat sonora.

[Gravacions quadrafòniques adaptades per a reproducció binaural amb auriculars]

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VINYL, DIGITAL, CD: http://bit.ly/N45-NOTON-SHOP

N-45 - ALVA NOTO - UNIEQAV
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 16TH, 2018

The Uni series began when Alva Noto was booked to play live at the club UNIT in Tokyo, and had to adapt his sound accordingly for that environment.

‘UNIEQAV’ follows-on from and develops the concept of Alva Noto’s ‘Unitxt’ and ‘Univrs’ albums, and completes the third part in the trilogy, whereby each record is both unique and part of the bigger picture. This is also mirrored in the artwork for each release, which when combined form a triptych spelling ‘Uni’.

Described by Carsten as “sonically representing an underwater dive”, the gleaming ‘UNIEQAV’ brings as usual an inherent artistic, conceptual and scientific depth. Mathematics, data, unit systems, grids, rhythms, codes, text, language, spoken word, DNA, science technology and nature are all utilised, for both inspiration and execution.

As with the last two Uni releases, the French sound poet Anne-James Chaton collaborates here, on ‘Uni Dna’. Where on previous records Chaton first provided a vocal track to which Nicolai composed, this time the duo flipped it; the poet wrote for an existing track, adding his unique vocal approach to recite amino acids that constitute the DNA molecule.

Regarding Carsten’s interest in 3D sound design and building sonic spaces, ‘UNIEQAV’ transports the listener to a modern, spacious and zen-like place for meditative movement. But conversely the album works equally well in a dark club - as for every glistening digital spark and simple, emotive melody - there’s a stealthy bassline, frenetic drum pattern and colossal low-end thump.

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