Artist : Robert Curgenven
Title : Oltre
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2010
Date : 01/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 05
Label : Line
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 59:48 min
Size : 88,7 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Isole: Allargando Nero 13:51
02.Acciaccatura Amplificata 10:21
03.Gran Coda Andante 07:42
04.Largo Capriccioso 14:08
05.Nero Lento: Coda Lunga 13:46
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59:48 min
ôTransparenceö resonating dubplate |
turntable | field recordings | guitar
feedback | ventilator/fan
The "Transparence" dubplate, developed
at O ' in Milan, Italy, works within the
physical limitations of the vinyl
medium, employing the object as sound
source and also sound medium, to become
an instrument in its own right. Using
the non-linear acoustics of the gallery
at OÆ, the dubplate was recorded, and
later cut to disc in Berlin, at very low
volume. This ephemeral audio signal
becomes present during playback only at
high volume, which subsequently
produces, by design, a unique physical
response from the room, air and
amplification - creating deep undertones
and blossoming overtones via these
manifold resonances; simultaneously, the
action of the stylus gently abraids the
soft vinyl surface, causing the
dubplateÆs sound to gradually disappear
and evolve, successively losing higher
frequencies whilst acquiring new
artefacts and crackle. OLTRE documents
this degradation and transformation over
two months of live performances. The
integrated system of subsonic feedback
from ventilators, acoustically gated
binaural microphones, modal micro-
variations in guitar feedback, field-
recordings from across remote areas of
Australia and the live, physical
interplay of the turntable, dubplate and
stylus, combine to create a field which
moves beyond the original recordings and
their individual spaces.
1 - Aria 1, 18th movement, recorded live
at Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, 6
May 2009
2 - Aria 1 & 2, 12th movement, recorded
live at Klub Kamieniolomy, Warszawa,
Poland, 20 March 2009
3 - Aria 1, 13th movement, recorded live
at NRD, Torun, Poland, 25 March 2009
4 - Aria 2, 13th movement, recorded live
at NRD, Torun, Poland, 25 March 2009,
additional guitar
recorded by J÷rg Maria Zeger, Berlin,
Germany, 11 September 2001
5 - Aria 1, 17th movement, recorded live
at Codalunga, Vittoria Veneto, Italy, 26
April 2009
Working with harmonics and textures as
articulated not only through
instruments/objects, in space and place,
but also in time and the dislocation of
the remote, Robert CurgenvenÆs sound
explores shifting layers in the fabric
of fields of perception, creating vast
landscapes from carefully detailed
recordings through to immersive
resonances via deft manipulations of
sound pressure. Employing only analogue
means, in a variety of contexts from
pure field recordings to feedback and
instrumental harmonics to shape
relations through sound, his work
interweaves the unfolding of complex
beauty and the quiet brutality of nature
in all of its forms, described by one
audience member as "like a punch in the
face while elsewhere flowers bloomed."
From 1999 he lived in Australia's
Northern Territory, where for much of
the ensuing nine years he worked in
small towns and remote locations in
health, radio and the arts. He relocated
to Europe at the beginning of 2008.
Since returning to performing live in
2004 he has played at over 150 events
throughout Australia and Europe,
including Club Transmediale (Berlin),
Feste dell Acqua (Vicenza), Mikro_Makro
Festival (Poland), ZXZW (Netherlands)
Gallery for Contemporary Art (Leipzig),
C/O Pop (Koln), Alice Springs Desert
Festival, Darwin Festival, Electrofringe
(Newcastle), Tura New Music Festival
(Perth). He has collaborated with many
Australian and international artists
including Joerg Maria Zeger (guitar),
Katrin Bethge (overhead projections),
Andrea Belfi (Hapna), Attila Faravelli
(Die Schachtel), zÆev (Ideal), Jason
Kahn (Sirr), Sumugan Sivanesan
(Cronica), KK Null (Touch) and leading
Indigenous Australian artists. He has
also exhibited group and solo work in
Germany, Italy, Poland, France, United
States and Australia.
Mixed in Berlin, Amsterdam, Milan,
Ionian Sea and London: April-July 2009
Mastered by Rashad Becker, Berlin, 7
July 2009
Cover photography: Patrick Boland û
Cockatoo Island, 2008
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