Label: Important Records

音響彫刻好きは是非!!サウンドアート界隈では古くから知られているTim Catlinが2012年に立ち上げた自作楽器"Vibrissa"を複数で演奏する集団Overtone Ensemble。約7年振りとなる超久々のアルバムが米Important Recordsより出版。本作では天井の高さ10メートルの旧礼拝堂を録音場所に選択、12本のアルミパイプが取り付けられた"Vibrissa"を中心に、ティンパニ、弓弾きしたピアノ、グロッケンシュピール、ギター、そして新たな創作楽器ドップラーロッドを使い豊かな倍音風景を創出。現行の音響彫刻ものとしてはとても貴重な録音といえる内容。



Tim Catlin formed the Overtone Ensemble in 2012 in order to perform works using his self-made Vibrissa instruments. The Vibrissa includes twelve vertically mounted aluminium rods that are longitudinally stroked with gloved hands to produce ethereal “singing” tones. The long sustaining nature of the rods sound and microtonal tunings allow players a sonic palette of complex textures and harmonic complexity.

Expanding from the instrumentation on their first album, these new recordings utilize Vibrissa instruments, plus a range of extended techniques on old instruments including timpani, bowed piano, bowed glockenspiel, bowed guitar as well as some new instruments like doppler rods and whirled tubes.

The majority of the recordings were done in the Old Chapel building in Melbourne, Australia. The chapel, formerly attached to the Old Melbourne Gaol boasts 10 metre high ceilings which added an enveloping acoustic ambience. At times it felt as though the spectral presences of former inmates were hovering benevolently in the rafters watching on.