s w e e t b e a t s
january.22.2002 - #838
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artist : VA
album : Floating Foundation Vol.1
year : 2001
label : Sub Rosa
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : SR146
url : www.subrosa.net
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.Janek Schaefer - Lithospheric Shifts 08:02
02.Main : : Robert Hampson - Hysteresis 12:05
03.Christophe Charles - Undirected Float 14:47
04.Stephen Vitiello - Salty Lemonade for Falling Water 08:39
05.Kurt Ralske - Au.Taste 13:50
05 tracks | 57:23 mins | 78,8 MB
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The aim of the Floating Foundation series is to "create sound
objects" with musicians "who are, in most cases, plastic artists
too" (from Sub Rosa director Guy Marc Hinant's presentation) - in
other words, to walk the thinning line between music and plastic
arts.
The sound sculptors contributing to this first installment all
decided to take its title (inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's sense
of architecture) literally.
Each piece is a journey through either air or water - not that the
artists declare to specifically use sounds derived from these
sources, but their music feels airborne, free-floating, gentle, and
following its own, sometimes capricious path. Janek Schaefer's
"Lithospheric Shifts" opens the CD, but it represents its weaker
point.s
It doesn't take off, offering a limited and uninvolved scope of
sounds. Robert Hampson's (aka Main) "Hysteresis" is already more
interesting and takes the shape of a British-school
electro-acoustic work.
Christophe Charles and Stephen Vitiello's contributions make for
the best moments, the former vaguely ambient, the latter presenting
the most minimalist but sharply focused work, derived in part from
his recordings of the World Trade Center (something that cannot
help but take an unplanned extra dimension after the events of
September 11, 2001).
This is where the sense of plasticity, of "sound sculpting," can be
felt the strongest. Kurt Ralske's "Au.Taste" provides a suitably
calm ending. --allmusic.com
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