Label: Hideous Replica

2013年頃から2016年まで美しいジャケットデザインにて活発なリリースを行っていた、サウンドアーティストLouie Riceが主催する物音系レーベルHideous Replica。久々の出版物となる2024年音源が登場。トロンボーン奏者のWeston Olencki、フルート奏者のLaura Cocks、二人の演奏家が取り組んだフルートの為の楽曲が収録されており、バグパイプの音楽理論やブザー音を介してフルートを鳴らす等、極めて実験的なコンセプトで仕上げられた長編2曲を収録。意外にノイジーなサウンドが多く使用されている点も面白い。



1. ceòl meadhonach

From the Kilberry Book of Ceol Meadhonach, published in 1908 by Captain John Campbell and Archibald Campbell:

"The music of the Highland bagpipe is usually said to be divided into three categories: Ceol Mor, the "big music" or Piobaireachd; Ceol Beag, the "little music," that is quicksteps and dance music, and Ceol Meadhonach, the "middle music" which lies between the other two, and consists of such tunes as are neither constructed in the measure of Piobaireachd, nor adapted for the quick march or dance."

2. SLUB

As an instrument activated via buzzing, the flute’s scales and acoustic systems are reconfigured; SLUB is the act of submerging into the instabilities of this reconfiguration, building a world of internal physical disturbance that shifts, envelopes, and becomes quasi-environmental as it moves along the body of the flutes.