Label: Sonoris

今回も期待を裏切らない仕上がりです!!Entr'acteやKye、Flaming Pines、Glistening Examplesからのリリースを含め、現在まで残して来た音源そのどれもが素晴らしい日常音をコラージュ/コンクレートする作家Mark Vernon。英電子音楽レーベルPersistence Of Soundからのソロ作も素晴らしかったですが、本作も引けを取らないコンクレート路線のアルバム[Sheet Erosion]。2020年初頭に記録したという嵐のフィールドレコーディングと、70年代及び80年代のラジオや音楽放送のオープンリールテープ録音をネタに使用、それらを分厚く歪んだ音塊へと変容させた流石のセンス。







Sheet Erosion is the third episode in a series of works based around ideas of audio archaeology and found sounds. The setting this time is the city of Brest in France.

It is composed of field recordings made in early 2020 during the storms Ciara and Desmond plus a batch of found open-reel tape recordings dating from the 70s and 80s. The tapes include domestic home recordings but mostly document the recordist, Michel's tastes in music and radio programmes of the time. Daily life bleeds into these lo-fi recordings of radio and TV shows. Captured with a mic in front of a speaker rather than directly cabled, ambiguous activities can be heard in the background; babies crying, feedback, chairs scraping and muffled conversations.

In the composition family histories and musical tastes are transposed over a more contemporary soundscape of Brest. Over-saturated tape distorts time as well as sounds. Speeds change. Chronologies become confused. Different instances in time are blended and fused. What seeps through these chronological crevices are events and incidents unmoored from linear time taking place in a chimerical non-space.