Label: After Action Review

1996年から音響とコンピューター音楽の研究を開始、並行して民族音楽学の研究も行い、また現代美術及び作曲家に関する一連の出版物も手掛けているイタリアのサウンドアーティストLuca Garino。寡作ながらCanti MagneticiやSecond Sleepに興味深いコンセプトの音源を残しており、本作はマニアックなラインナップが揃うドイツのサウンドアートレーベルAfter Action Reviewから発表したソロ作。自身が考案/監督した「画像のない映画」という作品で、6名のパフォーマーが竹の棒や足踏み、水面を鳴らしたりするパフォーマンス・フィールドレコーディング。聞こえてくるのはほぼ自然なサウンドのみで、そのしっとりとした情景に引き込まれます。素晴らしい内容。

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Perceptually the Mountain is a source of pleasure, alterity and danger. Acoustically transparent. Souffle (Fr: 'Breathe') is a film without images, conceived of and directed by Luca Garino - an Italian sound artist and composer, based in Turin. Souffle offers scenes of attentive and mimetic presences in dialogue with other presences. Interior and exterior environments, and the various forms of life and/or non-life that inhabit them. They are integral assets to these scenes, and make up these other presences.

When an exterior environment meets an interior environment, one may only pass via permissible openings, analogous to the mouths and branchial derivations of Pilau, the giant Piraïba fish which lives in the Amazon river basin, to which the Wayãpi of the French Guiana dedicate a traditional dance, that must be sung in the course of a single day. These openings are where information flows and interchanges from the other to the familiar; an ephemeral exchange which we can only experience through our single point of view: the human one, and only to the extent of what this perception can reveal.

An interior without openings will suffocate this vital flow; where information is held still, authoritarian thoughts will thrive, and inhabitants become occupants. Perhaps the human bodies should therefore invert and spill out their minds and insides back to the earth - surrendering to entropy, and relinquishing all false dichotomies of separation: Subject / Object, Culture / Nature, Mind / Body, Human / Animal. The environment and its ever-changing perspectives are the 'protagonists', within which living beings express themselves (all of them, indiscriminately, both in stillness and in movement).