Label: Touch - Tone 47

廃盤タイトル。Touchを中心にPosh Isolation、Von、Holotype Editions、Important Recordsに音源を残し確かな評価を得ているデンマークのサウンドアーティストJacob Kirkegaard。過去に同TouchがリリースしたCDアルバム[4 Rooms](2006年)より[Church]、[Labyrinthitis](2008年)、この2つの楽曲をデンマークのアンサンブル"Scenatet"と共に新たなクラシカル仕様として作り直した2013年LP。オリジナルにはない圧倒的透明度が美しい仕上がりとなっています。

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In collaboration with Danish ensemble Scenatet, Jacob Kirkegaard's two pieces Labyrinthitis and Church are here interpreted by classical instruments. The intention of this transformation into an instrumental score is to explore the musical dimension and potential of the sounds that were used in creating the original works.

Church (from "4 Rooms", Touch, 2006) originally consists of ambient recordings of an abandoned church inside the radioactive zone in Chernobyl. Laybrinthitis (Touch, 2008) is a canon of oto-acoustic tones generated by the artist's own ears. Like most of Kirkegaard's sound works, both pieces are characterised by a strong focus on methodology, and by the artist's wish to omit any deliberate emotional or "musical" intention.

Jacob Kirkegaard is a Danish artist focusing on scientific & aesthetic aspects of resonance, time, sound & hearing. His installations, compositions & performances deal with acoustic spaces or phenomena that usually remain imperceptible. Using unorthodox methods for recording, Kirkegaard captures and contextualizes hitherto unheard sounds from within a variety of environments: a geyser, a sand dune, a nuclear power plant, an empty room, a TV tower, and even sounds from the human inner ear itself.