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内容、パッケージ共に毎度素晴らしいクオリティの作品を届けてくれるMads Emil Nielsen主宰のレーベルarbitraryより、注目の2022年新タイトルが登場！！80年代から電子音楽家として活動、年配の音楽家による英国のトリオグループTwinkle³の一員であり、主にモジュラーシンセで電子音を担当している大ベテランコンポーザーRichard Scott。ソロ音源が少ない作家ですが、なんとこの人物による"FRAMEWORK"(グラフィックスコア作)が単独でリリース！！毎度の如く作品に付属する図形楽譜6種を使った演奏記録であり、2017~2021年に掛けEMSストックホルムを含む様々なスタジオで録音。多くのヴィンテージ・アナログシンセにハイドロフォン、レコーダーを駆使し作り上げた、まさにこのシリーズらしいハイクオリティな立体有機音響。激ヤバです。CD版はデジパック仕様、6つのグラフィックスコアが付属。



Digipak incl. 6 prints

“These compositions capture aspects of my personal sonic experience of specific times and places. Extending beyond my usual work with analogue synthesizer, these pieces open the doors and windows to the outside world, incorporating field and live recordings made in various locations and situations. Rather than intending any clear sense of narrative, these are molecular dialogues between elements and geographies which do not necessarily share organic points of connection, other than my own incomplete experience and memory of them.”

The final piece “6 Graphic Etudes” (included as digital prints) is intended as a set of visual / sonic sketches, each of which describes a discrete kind of movement or texture. These may have a variety of uses; as musical exercises, as scores, combined as parts of scores, or simply as stand-alone visual propositions / artworks.

The pieces were composed between 2017 and 2021 at Sound Anatomy, Berlin, Spektrum Berlin, EMS Stockholm, NOVARS, University of Manchester, the Electronic Music Studios, University of Huddersfield and in Boliqueime, Portugal.

As well as various microphones, hydrophones and recorders, the instruments used on this recording are mostly analogue and modular synthesisers: Hordijk Modular, Serge Modular, EMS Synthi A, various Eurorack modules, Buchla Thunder midi controller, Oberheim Xpander, Clavia Nord Micro Modular, CataRT and maxMSP, Rob Hordijk Blippoo box. On “Thunder, actually bicycles...” Axel Dörner plays a Holton Firebird trumpet with additional live-sampling via maxMSP and a controller interface developed by Sukandar Kartadinata.