Monat: Januar 2020

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Review | By Duncan Simpson / Musique Machine
Silva Datum Musica | PLEIN AIR
Gruenrekorder are a label with a reputation for bringing truly novel experiences in sound to the listening public and PLEIN AIR: Silva Datum Musica is no exception. It’s ostensibly a multidisciplinary project bringing together artists Tim Collins and Reiko Goto with sound programmer Chris Malcolm to create an interface to „initiate an ethical consideration of trees, using sound to focus the attention and the imagination“. This approach has been refined to a point where the whole „performance“ is centred on a single leaf where sensors measure the rates of photosynthesis, transpiration and other plant biochemical processes. The data from those sensors is then manipulated and transposed by Malcolm into composed sound. The four pieces on side A of this handsomely presented vinyl were recorded live in Glasgow, Scotland and the side-long piece of side B in Cologne. […]

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Reviews | By Rigobert Dittmann / Bad Alchemy Magazin (104)
11min | snow
Da sitze ich und starre, wie Parzival auf drei Blutstropfen im Schnee, auf den schwarzen Schnee von snow (GrD 31, LP) und komme erst Flocke für Flocke dahinter, dass sie vom Nachthimmel fallen und dass 11m nicht 11 Minuten meint, sondern das Seouler Duo von Jiyeon Kim = 11 und Sangyong Min. Zwei, die auch schon, meditativ und nostalgisch, „Transparent Music“ (2017) hingetüpfelt haben, nachdem 11 allein ihre „11 EP“ (2014) als poppige Singer-Songwriterin geschmachtet hatte. Die transparente Musik spielt 11 jedoch auf dem Piano, ostinat klimpernde Muster, die zwischen Satie, Debussy und New Simplicity changieren, besonders wenn Min mit seinem Drumming pausiert. […]

 

Tim Ingold & Carmen Pardo & Mikel R. Nieto | A soft hiss of this world
[…] 11s Cover für „snow“ ist wie ein Einzelbild aus MIKEL R. NIETOs Videoessay „Citizen Kane“. Über Schnee im Stummfilm (Alice Guys ‚L’Hiver, danse de la neige‘) und bei Debussy (‚La neige danse‘). Über Schnee als Borromäischer Knoten aus Naturphänomen, Erinnerung & Tod, zwischen kristallisierter H2O-Physik, Johannes Keplers „Neujahrsgabe oder Über den sechseckigen Schnee“ (1611), Ernst Haeckels „Kristallseelen“ (1917), Conrad Aikens „Silent Snow, Secret Snow“ (1934), Yoko Onos ‚Listen, the snow is falling‘ (1969). Mit André Bazins ‚Il neige sur le cinéma‘ (1948) als Spur hin zur Schneekugel von „Citizen Kane“. Schnee bricht den Schlafzauber der Wicked Witch of the West, DiCaprio bricht mit seinem „The Revenant“-Oscar eine Lanze für mehr Schnee, und das Geheimnis von ‚Rosebud‘ quillt als schwarzer Rauch wie aus einem Auschwitz-Krematorium. […]

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Reviews | By Frans de Waard / VITAL WEEKLY
Tim Ingold & Carmen Pardo & Mikel R. Nieto | A soft hiss of this world
If I could do that all day, plus listening to music (without the obligation to write about it) and drink coffee (and hopefully still sleep well at night), then that would almost perfect; maybe watch one movie every evening. But a book that makes it difficult for the reader is not well spending on me. Mikel R. Nieto already published a hard to read a book (Vital Weekly 1037), called ‚Dark Sound‘. That book was all black letters on black paper and you would have to sit either in sunlight or a strong lamp. I tried and I failed. This new book is about silence and the sound of snowflakes. […]

 

11min | snow
You would think that 11min stands for 11 minutes, but it a piano player who is called 11 (I will refrain from ‚Stranger Things‘ jokes) and Sangyong Min on drums. For both, we could not find much information online, as the latter brought me to car websites, even when the spelling is slightly different. The mastering was done in Seoul, so these musicians could also be from South Korea. Gruenrekorder is a label mostly known for their releases with sound art and field recordings, but they also have a section devoted to improvised music and that is the field where we find the music on this album. […]