Artist : Ithaca Trio
Album : Quiet, Please
Year : 2011
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 229kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CDR
Playtime : 0h 19m
Size : 33.52mb
Label : Coma Architects
Catalognr : COMA-02
Tracklist:
01. Quiet, Please 19:26
Releasenotes:
"Quiet, Please" is an 80mm CDr release, documenting the degeneration of
society's sonic landscape through location recordings, tape-loops and double
bass.
"Quiet, Please" deals with the issue of "noise" as a polluting yet ultimately
unavoidable element in an acoustic space, through the medium of lo-fi location
recording and magnetic tape deterioration. Inspired by R. Murray Schafer's The
Tuning of the World (1977), the composition draws upon the concept of an
ever-degrading sonic environment caused by humanity's technological development.
The affliction of noise pollution is something which, in all likelihood, cannot
be avoided if society is to continue to progress - noise is therefore
inevitable. For Quiet, Please the location setting of a library was chosen for
its cultural significance in the issue of noise control. Firstly, the concept of
education and learning ties in with the topics surrounding human progress: the
process of formal education is fundamental to the technical and social
advancements causing this shift from high to low-fidelity soundscape. Secondly,
in the case of the recordings made in this piece, the library seems to act as an
example of the impossibility of complete noise eradication. The library - which
is generally accepted as a quiet place of study - in fact, contains a great deal
of noise pollution, which is then amplified by the cultural expectation of
"silence" - Ithaca Trio, 2011
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