Artist : Stephen Vitiello
Title : Buffalo Bass Delay
Genre : Ambient / Electronic
Year : 2005
Date : 03/15/2007
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 01
Label : Hallwalls
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 53:41 min
Size : 65,5 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Buffalo Bass Delay 53:41
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53:41 min
Review by Tony Conrad, June 2005
Stephen Vitiello is best known for the eerie recordings he made
high up in the World Trade Center, by attaching microphones to
the huge glass windows on the 91st floor. His sound works are
site specific-marked by relationships to special places,
reworking and echoing an often harsh and barren reality.
L.A. is not the future, and Arnold should be the first to know
it. You know his films, and the dozens of post-apocalyptic
movies and sci-fi novels: the tribal post-industrial future,
where bands of survivors scavenge the leavings of the
military-industrial complex. Stephen Vitiello has found this
future in Buffalo, New York.
Buffalo was the L.A. of 1900: the first movies shot by electric
lighting, houses by Frank Lloyd Wright, gateway to the West,
and the most advanced transportation and industrial
technologies of the day. In particular, advanced grain
elevators were first introduced in Buffalo. Now those concrete
Great Northern and Electric elevators stand empty and rusting
in weedy fields, huge honeycombs of vertical cylindrical
shafts, each tube the size of a New York apartment and running
from over a hundred feet high almost to the ground. There, in
the cobwebs, fallen concrete and rust of decades, is where
Stephen Vitiello recorded the future.
Buffalo Bass Delay is haunted by the remembered sounds of 2005,
today: the sounds of distant sirens and traffic on nearby Route
5, and the mournful heaving of passing locomotives. Then, amid
occasional wisps of faraway conversation, the sallow tribal
rhythms and low whistling of the Last Men carry us up the time
tunnel into that vague Never (or Ever) that good music always
inhabits.
---------------t0ny c0nrad, June-05