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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Toshiya Tsunoda
t i t l e : Pieces Of Air
d a t e : 2002
l a b e l : Lucky Kitchen (LK016)
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Sep-2004
t r a c k s : 15
b i t r a t e : 192kbps
s i z e : 85,7 MB
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Toshiya Tsunoda is, with a bunch of other people, part of the
WrK collective, who investigate sound and space. They release
CD's but also do installations. I have seen several ones by
Tsunoda and they are almost poetic. Nice in design, but overall
silent and which one finds himself contemplating. From the
various WrK members, Tsunoda is the one that deals with
environmental sounds. He's Vertov's 'Man with the microphone'.
Going outside armed with nothing more then a microphone and a
machine to record the sounds upon. Sometimes he uses pipes of
various lengths to record his sounds with, thus transforming
the sound. For all of these pieces on this CD, there is no
electronic processing going on. Tsunoda cuts these sounds out
of the larger recording, and thus his role as a composer is
limited to selecting the sounds out of a bigger part. This
collection of fifteen tracks collect the outdoor sounds (mainly
Japanese, fields, forests and harbors) with a few exceptions.
'Echo Of A Room' for instance is a piece in which he uses a
sine wave test signal and switcher which activites the
microphone when the signal is off. This is almost a Pan Sonic
piece and operates like an odd ball in this collection, but
doesn't seem to be out of place. This is a fine example of
sound scaping of a more radical nature.
URL; http://www.luckykitchen.com
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01-Inside Of A Pipe (04.05.94) [01:29]
02-Inside Of A Pipe (26.03.94) [03:27]
03-Inside Of A Pipe At The Seashore 1 [05:17]
04-Inside Of A Pipe At The Seashore 2 [03:48]
05-Middle Of The Field [04:08]
06-Echo Of A Room [03:14]
07-Crickets [06:03]
08-Above-Below [03:59]
09-Middle Of A Hill [00:59]
10-Rocky Coast On A Windy Day [04:08]
11-Cider Forest Of A Windy Day [03:34]
12-Bottle + Signal 121hz [02:15]
13-Bottle + Signal 111hz [02:15]
14-Ship Passage [07:14]
15-Islamic Chant [10:24]
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62:14 min
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