Label: 901 Editions 9ED014

大大大推薦!!ブック、音の内容共にメチャクチャ素晴らしいです!!サウンドアート界の重鎮Steve Rodenがイタリア901 Editionsよりブック+CDのセット作を発表！！本作は香港大学から委託され制作をした作品であり、大学内にあるポーランド系アメリカ人の建築家ダニエル・リベスキンド設計による新しい建築物(クリエイティブメディアセンター)内にて行われた録音。建物のグランドオープンの為に数人のサウンドアーティストやメディアアーティストが集められSteve Rodenは音とドローイングを担当、10年程前にデンマークにて行ったプレキシガラスと炎を用いた音源を使い、ベル、ギター、フィールドレコーディングとミックスした5つの音源を現場に設置。学生や訪問者の流れに影響され美しい変容を続けるミニマルでマイクロスコピックな音響がしっとりと続きます。60ページのブックには他参加者によるテキスト、Steve Rodenのドローイングを掲載。

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DRAWINGS, SOUNDS (CD)
Steve Roden

BOOK
A5 format (14,8 x 21 cm / 5.8 x 8.3 in)
60 pp. (colour)
Sewn Binding
Edition: 300
Language: English

CD
Cardboard Wallet
72'04''

From Steve Roden:

gradual small fires (and a bowl of resonant milk), was commissioned by the university of hong kong’s new media school, and more specifically, the work was created initially for daniel libeskind’s building for the university’s cmc (creative media center). for the grand opening of the building, several sound and new media artists were invited to create works on site.

the work consisted of 5 different pieces – each object constructed of plexiglass, and each sound work anchored by a recording of a fire that i had made in denmark 10 years or so ago. i added sounds (such as bells, rocks, guitar, field recordings), and everything was manipulated, for the most part with analog guitar pedals.

each sound/sculpture was placed in a discreet location, generally a space that seemed to have no use. the pieces were relatively quiet, and the hope was that a student or visitor would happen upon these works accidentally, and that the piece would then offer a diversion.

my goal was to complete a piece for every photo in ruscha’s book.

along with the five works exhibited at the cmc in hong kong, a 6th piece, gradual small fire 5, was commissioned for the exhibition “sound art. sound as a medium of art” at the zkm in karlsruhe.