Label: Folklore Tapes

このレーベルのタイトル、全種本気で激推しです!!英国のディープな民俗学を探究、長年に渡り広く収集されてきた歴史のイメージをアブストラクトな音楽と実験的ビジュアルで作品化する、まさにインディペンデントな活動を行っているFolklore Tapes。このレーベルがシリーズで出版をしている、イングランドのインダストリアル文化にフォーカスした"Industrial Folklore Tapes"の#3。本作にはフィールドレコーディストにしてエクスペリメンタル・ミュージシャンMary Starkによるパフォーマンスが収録されており、もともとは縫製工場だった広い空間内で披露された実験演奏の記録。ワークソングをはじめ、織り機、ミシンや映写機の駆動音のアンプリファイ・サウンド、そして自身の歌声を生々しくリアルタイムでミックスした完全フィジカル重視の激ヤバ物件。ゲートフォールドスリーヴ仕様、16mmフィルムと12ページブックレットが縫い付けられる形で付属します。





-Created by Mary Stark
-Ten-inch record in gatefold sleeve
-Twelve page black and white machine sewn booklet
-16mm black and white patterned fabric photogram
-Limited edition of 250

The third Industrial Folklore Tapes release is constructed from live recordings of a performance tilted ‘Film as Fabric’ by Mary Stark, which examines relationships between textile practice and filmmaking. From 2012-2016, Mary’s studio practice and numerous performances took place in Rogue Artist Studios at Crusader Mill in Manchester, formerly a production site of machinery for the cotton industry and a garment works. The performance has been enriched by exploration of Lancashire’s industrial heritage and Mary’s family history, which includes workers in cotton mills and expert needlewomen.

The performance repeatedly involves sound in physical formats through optical sound, work song and recordings of weaving machinery on vinyl records, the amplified mechanisms of the film projector and sewing machine, and Mary’s voice. The performance highlights the now obsolete industrial practice of linear film editing and shows photochemical film as a sculptural reflective fabric, measured and worn on the body, cut with scissors and stitched on the sewing machine. Through the filmmaking technology of optical sound, fabric and stitch patterns are transformed into noise, referring to a lesser-known sonic world associated with textile production. The live recordings are from performances at Full of Noises Festival 2015, and in 2016 at Islington Mill, Manchester Histories Festival and Radio Revolten International Festival of Radio Art.