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a r t i s t : Loren Chasse
t i t l e : The Air In The Sand
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : Naturestrip [NS3004]
g e n r e : Other
r l s. d a t e : July/2005
t r a c k s : 06
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 78.3 MB
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The San Francisco based sound artist Loren Chasse is apt to describe the
many facets of his work through a simple metaphor. For example, Chasse
often qualifies his microphone as a physical extension of the ear, and
site-specific environments become his ersatz studio and mixing board.
Yet these metaphors extend far beyond the concept of sound construction
and into sympathetic relationships with everything around him. On his
critically acclaimed 2002 album Hedge of Nerves, he applied the often
fetishized sound of vinyl crackle to elemental recordings of wind, sand,
fire, wood, and surf for an album bristling with tactility whose complex
details amassed into an transcendent, oceanic blur. This was not a
mimesis of an antiquated technology dumped upon a digital production
with the facade of "making something real," but an abstracted coupling
of complementary acoustics hopefully to engage the imagination of the
audience.
For his most recent album The Air In The Sand, Chasse posits another
metaphor: the composition as a diorama. Within his ideas about the sound
diorama, Chasse exaggerates those sounds which he feels to be essential
for a space and minimizes everything else. Again, the recording process
of The Air In The Sand revolves around Chasse's active participation
within a particular environment. In these unspecified spaces, he
broadcasts an array of drones, textures, and field recordings back into
the sonic environment where they intermingle with the ambience of that
location. Part of this process is an attempt to move away from the
constraints of the digital workstation; but at the same time, Chasse is
far more interested in the curious alchemy that occurs when a space
listens to itself making sound. The nighttime chorus of crickets gurgles
within aqueous percolations and the tectonic crash of surf crashing
against rock. Elsewhere, rain vaporizes in a caustic sizzle as it falls
upon overhead electrical wires, and this sound is compounded by the
sharp crack of branches and the slow hiss of sand.
For all of the elemental sounds that dominate his recordings, Chasse
extracts subtle musical timbres and fragile half-melodies that haunt The
Air In The Sand. While some of Chasse's recording techniques remain
similar, it is important to note that Chasse sets this body of work
(along with id battery and Coelacanth) outside of his ongoing pastoral
contributions to the polyphonic Jewelled Antler constellation (e.g.
Thuja, The Blithe Sons, Child Readers, and even his pseudonymous solo
project Of.) With an emphasis placed upon location and its sonic ghosts,
Chasse exposes something profoundly beautiful lurking in the shadows of
the landscape. - Jim Haynes, June 05"
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01-The Air In The Sand [17:30]
02-Drawing Dirt [01:52]
03-The Tree On The Sky [07:32]
04-The Air Inside The Rain [19:05]
05-Drawing Water [03:28]
06-The Air Against The Ground [12:52]
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