How would you, or anyone on the list, make sound from
architecture ?
Two interesting approaches to such a project are the
"Regeneration-Degenerescence" compilation on KAON and Tsunoda Toshiya's
"Extract from Field Recordings Archive #1" on WrK. The KAON project
involved a series of locational recordings made of a disused rubber factory
and sent to a quite diverse array of experimental musicians, each of whom
applied his or her own techniques (concrete manipulations, electroacoustic
recomposition, sequenced sampling, analog distortion, etc) and
supplementations to the source material. The collection was then assembled
on two CDs, with each locational recording followed by its treatment, and
although tracks might have been organized more coherently (for example, all
of the treatments might have been arranged within the dynamic flow of a
journey or tour, with the original samples placed at the end for reference
and reuse) the whole is a fascinating study of a building rendered as
sound. Tsunoda, on the other hand, explores spaces by recording them with
contact microphones placed on or inside acoustically altering objects such
as metal pipes, the application and placement of the recording devices
rendering the raw atmospheric sound as nearly alien noise without the
intervention of effects or processing. It seems the label Hapna has
released #2 in Tsunoda's series, but I have not yet heard it. Any comments
perhaps on this one?
np - So Takahashi "Nubus" (a nice and quite approachable synthesis of
Ikedan blipverts and Ovaloid errorbience with perhaps a salting of
Rasterized percussions to get the toes tapping)