Re: [microsound] waterloo terminal

[dan hill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  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?

hi

m'colleage david thorpe has just reviewed this for motion:

Toshiya Tsunoda
Extract from field recording archive #2, The air vibration inside a hollow
Häpna

One of the great advantages of having a broad range of music to
listen to is that often any kind of sound, of combination of sounds,
could be interpreted as music by someone, somewhere. It's sometimes
even tempting to completely reclassify what music is based on how
listenable it is. So Tsunoda's field recordings of vibrating air may
not be intentionally structured to form musical bars or phrases, but
there's more than enough texture and structure here to make an
intriguing listen. The eight tracks on this CD have been recorded by
microphones placed either in small objects (bottles, ducts and pipes)
or in rock cavities around Japan. The point of this experiment being
that the characteristic sound obtained is dependent heavily on the
fixed properties of the hollow, affected by the external vibrations
(in engineering terms, the characteristics could be completely
classified by recording the effect of an infinitely short pulse of
noise, but that's wouldn't make for a very long or listenable CD).
Tsunoda goes into great detail regarding each recording. For example,
Downpipe for rainwater was recorded thus: "Microphones were set up
close to the ground but inside the 31.5-meter vinyl chloride downpipe
attached to the outside wall of the silo." What's most evident by
listening to these atmospheric recordings is that they emphasise the
lyrical - almost musical - sound produced in a seemingly ordinary
sitation, which is often the domain of many "Cageian" composers and
performers. As a piece of installation art, an engineering experiment
or even as an experimental composition, it's intriguing.


sound excerpts (sadly low-quality for the moment) etc. at:
http://motion.state51.co.uk/reviews/552.html

cheers,
dan.

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