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Disparitions\u00a0| Flavien Gilli\u00e9<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n GrDl 136\u00a0| Gruen Digital > [order<\/a>] Reviews<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n These are field recordings from a trip to Krakow \/ Auschwitz-Birkenau. <\/p>\n These recordings are in memory of those now disappeared who have been waiting for hours outside in the cold rain. <\/p>\n 09 Tracks (29\u203256\u2033)<\/p>\n Artwork by Margaux Nessi<\/p>\n <\/p>\n MP3<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n MP3<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n MP3<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n <\/p>\n Field Recording Series by Gruenrekorder <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Martin P | Musique Machine<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n However, as it turns out, only one track would appear to be from the camp itself and rather aptly it eavesdrops on a speech from a tourist guide. I say aptly, because Auschwitz is no longer an extermination camp: it is now a site preserved to maintain the memory of it as an extermination camp. Its an important difference to consider, for someone who might go there with the notion of capturing in audio a sense of its horrific past. Whilst there is no doubt that certain places have an \u201catmosphere\u201d – I found Dachau to have a very eerie, sombre air – its unclear how much of this is created by our very presence: the point being, that unless the person recording believes in EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) or ghosts, they are essentially recording a museum (of sorts) – equal parts sombre reflection and just another stop on a tourist trail. Gillie is quite aware of all this – the album title \u201cDisparitions\u201d is another term for disappearance – and again explicitly explores this area with \u201cUl Slusarska 7, (Cracovie)\u201d, which is recorded \u201con a road behind Oskar Schindler\u2019s factory\u201d. The recording itself is really just a quiet urban landscape: any special resonance it has, is given to it by the knowledge of its location. This encourages the listener to reflect on the history of that location, and its changes through time; although it does leave the \u201csonic\u201d value of the recording itself somewhat in question.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In terms of pure \u201csonic\u201d interest, \u201cDisparitions\u201d has two wonderful tracks: \u201cUl. Miodowa 55, Nowy Cmentarz Zidowski (Cracovie) I\u201d and \u201cUl. Szpitalna 4 (Cracovie)\u201d. The first of these, a recording made at the new Jewish cemetery, in Krakow, has a genuine musicality to it; obviously the presence of birdsong encourages this reaction, but theres a moment where a train passes loudly by, accompanied by the voice of a spectator – it almost seems to follow a musical logic. The second piece is an unashamedly beautiful recording of rain, from under an umbrella in a courtyard: its an incredibly deep recording, with the close crackle of rain and the more distant gurgle of running\u00a0 water. Its an exemplary example of \u201cfield recording as HNW\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is an odd little release. To some extent, its akin to a series of holiday snaps: small moments captured, documenting a trip. There\u2019s short recordings of a tram journey, a kettle boiling and the train station as Gillie leaves Krakow. These feel like the field recordist\u2019s equivalent of snapshots – not necessarily a bad thing, but thats how they feel. They sit amongst tracks more overtly concerned with Gilli\u00e9\u2019s interests of \u201cplaces, voices and memory\u201d (although trains and mechanised transport are clearly bound up with the Holocaust); as well as tracks more clearly chosen for sonic beauty. So its a strange collage of an album, which is perhaps best seen as a pertinent, stimulating travelogue. <\/p>\n Flavien Gilli\u00e9 | Disparitions @ framework radio<\/a> | #449<\/a><\/strong> Disparitions\u00a0| Flavien Gilli\u00e9 GrDl 136\u00a0| Gruen Digital > [order] MP3 & FLAC Reviews These are field recordings from a trip to Krakow \/ Auschwitz-Birkenau. It’s hard to say if you can ever be ready to visit extermination camps. Prior to this journey some books have been read, related to the experience of camps. 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\nIt’s hard to say if you can ever be ready to visit extermination camps. Prior to this journey some books have been read, related to the experience of camps. Some of them changed me, here’s a selected list :
\nJean Am\u00e9ry : At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities
\nRobert Antelme – L’esp\u00e8ce Humaine
\nCharlotte Delbo’s trilogy : None of Us Will Return, Useless Knowledge and The Measure of Our Days
\nGeorges Didi-Huberman – \u00c9corces
\nDavid Rousset – L’Univers Concentrationnaire<\/p>\n
\n01 – Ul. Brzozowa 16 (Cracovie)
\nInner courtyard after the rain.
\n02 – Ul. Miodowa 55, Nowy Cmentarz Zidowski (Cracovie) I
\nThe new Jewish cemetary in the morning.
\n03 – Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
\nA guide is explaining while a long train is passing by in the background. Sad coincidences.
\nApplauses in the middle are for an old guide.
\n04 – Ul. Szpitalna 4 (Cracovie)
\n4’33 in an inner courtyard, little rain, microphones somehow binaural and an umbrella.
\n05 – Mantra (Tea Ceremony)
\n06 – Tram 22 (Nowa Huta)
\nComing from Nowa Huta.
\n07 – Ul. Miodowa 55, Nowy Cmentarz Zidowski (Cracovie) II
\nNew Jewish cenetary in the afternoon. A spectarl voice at 1’40.
\n08 – Ul Slusarska 7, (Cracovie)
\nOn a road behind Oskar Schindler\u2019s factory.
\n09 – Glowny Station (Cracovie)
\nLeaving.<\/p>\n
\nGruenrekorder \/ Germany \/ 2013 \/ GrDl 136 \/ LC 09488<\/p>\n
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\nThis is a download release, on the ever interesting Gruenrekorder label. Its a short collection of field recordings made by Flavien Gilli\u00e9 on a trip to Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau – a place most of you will know better as simply \u201cAuschwitz\u201d. Frankly, this set off all kinds of alarm bells in my head; namely, that making field recordings at an extermination camp was somewhat \u201ccheap\u201d – with the \u201cexoticness\u201d or historical resonance of the site over-riding the content of the recordings themselves.<\/p>\n
\nlink<\/a><\/p>\n
\nphonography \/ field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity
\npresented by patrick mcginley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"