Artist : VA
Title : May 6, 2001
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2006
Date : Jul-17-2006
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 05
Label : and/OAR
Source : CDDA
Length : 61:58 min
Size : 80,8 MB
Tracklist:
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01.steinbruechel - bank 15:45
02.aaron ximm - negative architectures 05:27
03.kenneth kirschner - may 6 2001 14:23
(abridged)
04.tomas korber - financial district 22:07
05.taylor deupree - dust 04:16
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61:58 min
On the night of Sunday, May 6, 2001, composer Kenneth Kirschner, as part of
a series of pieces documenting the sounds of different New York City
neighborhoods, took his tape recorder to the Financial District of Lower
Manhattan to begin field recordings for a new piece. The resulting
low-resolution portrait captured the sounds of a deserted urban landscape: the
empty, winding streets of old Dutch New Amsterdam, its modern, towering
skyscrapers -- and a region of the city that, several months later, would be
renamed Ground Zero.
and/OAR is proud to present "May 6, 2001", a collection of five interpretations by
five renowned contemporary composers of the aforementioned field recording
portrait.
With excerpts from Kirschner's original 2001 composition based on the field
recording, the CD also includes pieces by Taylor Deupree (USA), Tomas
Korber (Switzerland), Ralph Steinbrⁿchel (Switzerland), and Aaron Ximm
(aka Quiet American; USA), all utilizing the 2001 Financial District field
recording as their sole source material. The result is a project that obliquely and
subtly evokes the source recording and its subsequent meanings, while also
standing on its own as an estimable example of each artist's mastery of his
craft.
In conjunction with the release of the CD, and/OAR is pleased to present two
MP3s of related recordings. The first is the raw field recording itself, which is
the source material for the entire project. This 46-minute, low-resolution
soundscape of the New York City of early 2001 is presented here both for
interested listeners, and for fellow artists who may wish to make use of it:
http://www.kennethkirschner.com/field050601.mp3
In addition, here is the unedited, 36-minute version of Kirschner's composition
based on the field recording is available here:
http://www.kennethkirschner.com/kirschner050601.mp3
http://www.and-oar.org/
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