Label: Room40

本作も素晴らしいフィールドワークス!!大推薦！！主に自然環境を利用した音響芸術家として活動しているベテラン・サウンドアーティストPhilip Samartzis。同Room40より発表した前作[Polar Force]に続く待望の新作が遂に登場！！今回は地球の気温上昇によって引き起こされる高地生態系の変化を記録した作品で、スイスのユングフラウヨッホにある高地研究ステーションにてフィールドレコーディングを実施。ハイドロフォンを含む様々なマイクをステーション周辺と周囲の山々に4週間配置し、列車のターミナルや展望台の音、また風、雪、氷が引き起こす現象や振動を生々しく記録。この装飾の無い硬派過ぎるスタイルがこの人物の魅力。付属のブックレットには本人撮影の資料フォト及びエッセイを収録。



Matte laminate sleeve, insert card and artist book featuring essay and photographs from Philip Samartzis.

From Philip Samartzis

Atmospheres and Disturbances registers the changes in high altitude ecologies caused by increasing global temperatures. The composition is based on field work undertaken at the High-Altitude Research Station at Jungfraujoch, Switzerland where for four weeks I deployed various recording devices around the station, and in the surrounding alpine environment to register natural, anthropogenic and geophysical forces. The project provides new encounters of an endangered alpine environment to enhance the way we perceive and engage with notions of place, community, and environmental dissonance.

During fieldwork I used different microphones to record a variety of acoustic, spatial, atmospheric, and vibration-based phenomena. Omnidirectional microphones registered wind, snow, and ice as well as social, material, and industrial sound emanating from the nearby train terminus and viewing platforms. Hydrophones were placed within water and ice to record geophysical sound resonating within the frozen environment of Jungfraujoch and the adjacent glacier. The recordings capture the pervasive presence of anthropogenic sound permeating throughout the landscape produced by tourists, transport operations and recreational sports. Accelerometers were attached to various surfaces and structures to record solid vibration generated by high-velocity wind, and the process of melting and freezing. The recordings produced by the accelerometers clearly express the stress and fatigue occurring within the material structure of buildings and infrastructure.

Atmospheres and Disturbances is designed to place audiences deep inside an extreme environment to afford embodied experiences of an alpine ecology under duress.