OUT NOW:<br><br>Title: Physical, Absent, Tangible<br>Artists: i8u, Christopher DeLaurenti, Gil Sansón, Brian Mackern with Gabriel Galli<br>Cat#: ce.cd_0001<br>Edition: 150<br>Format: CDR / Taiyo Yuden<br>Releasing date: February 2010<br>
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Editions is pleased to present its first material sound-based release,
titled Physical, Absent, Tangible. This project's concept began as an
invitation to have artist-composers, i8u, Christopher DeLaurenti, Gil
Sansón, and Brian Mackern with Gabriel Galli, focus on an object or
event that was once discernible but no longer concretely present, so as
to be only tangible by memory, previous recordings, and/or imagination.
All the pieces commonly share a strong aesthetic, sonic, and material
connection and each track is archetypal of its own condition, evocative
of the in-between immaterial spaces and phenomenology. Listening to
this work leads us to think of the creator's investigation of issues of
material, space, process, narrative, perception, and sensorial touch.
Nonetheless, each track's relationship with limitations of sonic
output, sonic arena and horizon, and attentiveness to sonic details,
brings us close to the ceiling of our ears and the inner walls that
delimit sonic space or expands it. Therefore, it is fascinating how
each artist explores and pushes the boundaries of sonic existence by
challenging our ability to maintain attention and interest to
listening. These works are enriched with sonic particles, drones,
textures, and processes arriving to reductive structures of sonic
constructions. They should be appreciated at a specific value of
amplitude. I don't see this as a restriction; instead I see this as a
very focused and considerate invitation to the listener to experience a
unique encounter of meta-residues of sound crafted to accurate purpose.<br>
<br>i8u: "Recently, I find my attention being drawn to the space
unoccupied by sound. This area is ignored by most and some might say it
isn't music. In attempting to explain this new focus, I feel more at
ease using physics as analogy. The explanation of the atom and the
void never really caught my imagination. The definition of "the void"
always seemed to be dogmatic and impossible. String theory and quantum
physics have been a great source of inspiration to me as non existence
from our perspective, is no longer the void, but an inter-dimensional
mathematical world that our limited 3 dimensional existence has never
trained us for. Non-existence is no longer solely defined as the void."<br>
<br>Christopher DeLaurenti: "Most of my acousmatic works on compact
disc are finished versions of pieces that I no longer perform live.
Both Sigil and Nictating were created with familiar techniques:
software-based generation, processing (such as distortion, phase-based
compression, spectral inscription, data-bending), and layering as well
as with aging and malfunctioning equipment."<br>
<br>Gil Sansón: "This work is a reconstruction of sorts, using single
sounds and groups of sounds in apparent random mode, not unlike
reconstructing a long forgotten event by means of old photographs,
newspaper, super 8 films, maps and the like. These are works based on
field recordings and sound files that I have been collecting for some
years now and that whose origin I cannot determine. Random playing is
encouraged."<br>
<br>Brian Mackern & Gabriel Galli: "This work is the result of a
performance installation based on electromagnetic interferences caused
by The Santa Rosa Storm in Uruguay. Methods employed to achieving the
work were such as circuit bending, body contact, hardware hacking, and
radio-static waves, and real-time signals of radio and telegraphy. We
made this piece possible with the additional technical help of the
radio-telegrapher: Oscar "Canario" Sanchez" while we manipulated a
specific atmospheric sonic field with the intention of recreating the
electrostatic presence of the Santa Rosa Storm."<br>
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