Artist : Mathieu Ruhlmann
Title : The Earth Grows In Each Of Us
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2007
Date : 01/10/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 05
Label : Afe Records
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 53:08 min
Size : 62,1 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Sunrings In The Ritual House 01:02
02.Eschenau, 1976 09:02
03.Elegy For Ivan Generalic 07:02
04.All Will Grow Young Again 06:02
05.Holding Lights (Parts I-III) 30:00
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53:08 min
Mathieu Ruhlmann is a visual and sound artist. He first began
composing soundworks to accompany his visual art based on found
material.
He has created works for various labels in Europe, Canada and
the United States as well as contributed to several
compilations.
He has also produced sound installations and held performances
thorughout North America. He currently resides in Vancouver,
British Columbia.
"The Earth Grows in Each of Us" was composed and recorded
during Spring/Summer 2006. Instruments and sounds used on the
album include: violin, piano, autoharp, accordion, bell, shruti
box, voice, vinyl, wasps, seafoam, glass, tiles, fireworks,
water, tree branch, metal, seedpod, pine cone, tone generator
and stones.
Here's a description of the album according to Mathieu's own
words:
"The main concept behind "The Earth Grows in Each of Us" was to
create a soundwork addressing the regeneration of the life
cycle. This work was created in 2006, the year of my 30th
birthday. On this release there are five tracks. The first four
track times refer to the numeric year of my birth, 1976.
So the first track is 1 minute, second is 9 minutes, the third
7 minutes, and the fourth 6 minutes. The fifth track is 30
minutes long, my age, and is separated into 3 ten minute
segments (each segment representing a decade of life).
While creating these sound works, this regeneration of
different life cycles became very personal. My son was just
born so I was experiencing this new life and seeing his
growth/generation and also during this period my sister, who is
very close to me, was in a serious near death accident. So my
thoughts were constantly meditating on these two elements or
dichotomies and also these micro and macro cycles we
experience.
Coming from a very visual art background my process or method
is much aligned with how I approach a sound work. In my visual
art work I collect a lot of found material and objects and use
that as a structure or basis for my work very similar to my
approach with sound. I am constantly collecting field
recordings, found objects and sounds as well as traditional
instruments to compose with.
My initial influence to creating sound works was going out to
these environments to collect material for my visual art and
being so drawn into these acoustic environments (railway yards,
abandoned factories, mountains, old houses, etc.) that I
started recording them and presenting them with my artwork.
Soon I began to be more captured by the sounds and working with
them.
In this release though I had a conceived idea of the piece and
sought out the locations/sounds that related to the concept.
Usually I try not to work under such a structure."
"The Earth Grows in Each of Us" features a beautiful artwork
created by David Ruhlmann.
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