infr01 TOSHIYA TSUNODA available next week...

[Howard Stelzer <hstelzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

AVAILBLE 7/15:

infr01 Toshiya Tsunoda "Extract from Field Recordings Archive #3: Solid 
Vibration" CD

The sound work of Toshiya Tsunoda represents a radical rethinking of the 
concept of field recordings. By applying a square wave to an area of urban 
environment, he makes audible the vibration of air in extremely small or 
otherwise unattainable spaces. With the deceptively impersonal air of a 
purely scientific cataloguist, Tsunoda records minute vibrations, mostly 
outdoors and near to a body of water, meticulously writing down every event 
that occoured in the area during the time of the recording. A founding 
member of the WrK group of installation and conceptual artists (which also 
includes m/s and Jio Shimizu, among others), Tsunoda?s area of concern 
employs the language of physics and mathematics to reveal beauty and 
simplicity in outdoor environments. But rather than stop at the mere 
content-driven documentary of most field recording work, Tsunoda?s mastery 
of editing and recording reveal depths of sonic detail that could never be 
heard otherwise.

Past extracts from his archive have included the motion of air inside a 
glass bottle, or in the cracks of manhole covers. Tsunoda?s latest album is 
an investigation the motion of air across or within solid surfaces 
discovered in warehouse towns and Japanese seaports. What is most remarkable 
about these recordings is their subtle poetry and surprising musicality. 
Each piece is unmistakably a musical composition, even when it's subject is 
as deceptively simple as the vibration caused by interference between a dock 
worker's drill and a 120 Hz wave coming off the side of a boat, or a door, 
or a fence.

Tsunoda?s work has been published by Selektion (Germany), WrK (Japan), V2 
(Netherlands), Sonic Tiger (US) and Hapna (Sweden). His work was included in 
Intransitive?s ?VARIIOUS? 2CD compilation in 1999. He lives in Tokyo.

"Solid Vibration" is the first release on Infringitive, a new collaborative 
label from Intransitive (USA) and Fringes (Italy). In the US, you can find 
this at Forced Exposure, Anomalous Records and RRRecords. For the rest of 
the world, contact Fringes (www.fringesrecords.com) for info.


Howard Stelzer. Intransitive Recordings.
www.intransitiverecordings.com

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infr01 TOSHIYA TSUNODA "Extracts from Field
     Recordings Archive #3: Solid Vibration" CD

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