Artist : VA
Title : Airport Symphony
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2007
Date : 10/30/2007
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 18
Label : Room40
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : cd1: 71:55 cd2: 71:37
Size : 175,2 MB
Tracklist:
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cd1
01.David Grubbs - Chimney Swifts 06:15
02.Richard Chartier - Retrieval Path 11:26
03.Francisco L≤pez - Untitled #203 12:51
04.Camilla Hannan - Double Glazed 04:54
05.Taylor Deupree - Fear Of Flying 06:12
06.Christophe Charles - Airport 09:38
Symphony, A Brief Life
07.Dale Lloyd - Airs For Beacons / 05:22
Signals For Ports
08.Marc Behrens - 3 Winged Zones 10:17
09.Toshiya Tsunoda - Peak To Peak 05:00
cd2
01.Tim Hecker - Blue Ember Breeze 06:03
02.Stephan Mathieu - Lux-Scn 23:45
03.Christian Fennesz - Verona 04:43
04.Burkhard Beins - Tarmac Berlin Edit 08:40
05.Jason Kahn - Transit 03:31
06.Ulrich Krieger - Noise Pollination 08:20
07.Keiichi Sugimoto - Tum 04:18
08.Christopher Willits - Plane 06:40
09.Joel Stern - Terminal Dreamer 05:37
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143:32 min
As Alain De Botton suggests in his book æThe Art Of TravelÆ, the act of transit between social, cultural and
geographic circumstance is far more than mere bodily movement. Language, architecture, food, gesture,
landscape and sound all play a part in travel and ultimately contribute to the sensations of excitement,
exoticism, disorientation and even fear that occupy the daily life of the traveller.
At points of departure and arrival on these journeys increasingly lies an airport. Like business hotels across
the globe, the airport acts as a uniform presence û rotating gates, the clunk of baggage, the vague chatter
of tourist and traveller alike and the occasional interruption of muffled announcements. Vast halls echoing
with the shifting of bodies intent on exodus and return.
As Socrates wrote, æMan must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only
thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives [sic]Æ. Indeed, as the choreography of pre-flight
checks is conducted following the gentle rock of the plane leaving the air bridge to a soundtrack of gentle
pressurised drone and air conditioned hiss, a meditation commences. This moment of consideration is
heightened, as the reflected sound of the engines scorching the tarmac surface is vacuumed into the void
of open air and as the plane leaves the earth there is (in every traveller no matter how experienced) still a
sense of silent awe at the marvels of the physics of flight.
Airport Symphony, commissioned by the Queensland Music Festival and Brisbane Airport Corporation,
documents and synthesises the experiences of travel. Each piece represents a personal meditation on
aspects of travel in the modern age and suggests ways in which we control, augment and ultimately exists
in a time where almost no part of the face of the planet is inaccessible. Each of the pieces features a
source recording made in and around Brisbane Airport between March and June 2007 ûin a raw form or
transformed by processing.
Audio diary entries cataloguing the epic possibilities of flight, aero-passage and human bodies in motion
and even at rest.
Lawrence English, June 2007
All field recordings + photos by Lawrence English
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