Label: Creel Pone

音響彫刻及びインスタレーションの分野で活動したイスラエル/オランダ人美術家Relly Tarlo。オリジナルは1984年リリース、材質や太さの異なる8〜15mの13本のパイプを組み上げた音装置インスタレーション傑作[Tracks 2]がCreel Poneに登場！！ジャケットに掲載の写真を見ての通り長めに配置されたパイプの中にビー玉、ピンポン球、ボールベアリングを投下、その疾走するサウンドをコンタクトマイクで増幅し記録した、極めてノイジーな内容の面白物件。個人的にも聞き込んだ名作！！因みにパフォーマーとして参加しているAndries De Marez Oyensは、オランダ実験/電子音楽家Tera De Marez Oyensの息子。



This was the 29th in the "Proto Creel Pone" series (you can clearly sense the "Black & White Artist-Edition LPs of Sound Art" theme amongst the "000.X9" titles) covering this early issue of the work of Israeli-Dutch Sculptor & Composer Relly Tarlo, as pressed "Privately" via PolyGram Record Service B.V., Baarn (much like the Bill Fontana P.C.P., [CP 000.19 CD], the result of simply walking into the plant itself & placing an order) in 1984.

Performed by Andries De Marez Oyens (incidently the son of Dutch Composer Tera de Marez Oyens, whose piece "Safed" graces the Second "Anthology of Dutch Electronic Music", [CP 020-021 CD]) & Martijn Anhalt, the two side-length pieces (an aside, and I always love this sort of production-detail-as-pride-point, "Recorded with Sony PCM-F1, Schoeps MK2 mic. Mastered with Transdyn." - the PCM-F1 being Sony's earliest "Consumer" digital-recording system) on an instrument built by Tarlo consisting of:

13 pipes of different length (8-15m), material, diameter, and thickness.
Each pipe consists of several parts of different length.
The pipes are played upon by throwing in marbles, ping-pong balls, and ball bearings. The sound is amplified by contact-microphones.

Much like canonic Sound/Sculptural works such as Yoshi Wada's "Elephantine Crocodile", or even Paul Panhuysen & Ellen Fullman's "Long String Instrument" (see [CP 000.24 CD]), the monolithic churn of digital & gravity-borne animations to an otherwise static construct creates an incredible sound-field, constructed of thousands of tiny atoms of energy. One of the more dynamic (the first ~10 minutes of each side wades into near-silence) titles in the C.P. fold, and certainly a neglected/unheralded classic in the lineage of Sound Art.