Label: Room40

激シブなインプロヴィゼーション録音を手掛けるノルウェーSofaから2018年にソロデビュー、普段はPeter Knightが芸術監督を務めるAustralian Art Orchestraの一員として活動しているクラリネットプレイヤーのAviva Endean。レコーディングを行った現場の空間音響及びフィールドレコーディングにフォーカスしたフィードバック・ミニマルドローン作[Moths & Stars]。バイノーラルマイクを含む様々な種類のマイクを特殊な方法で使用、ほぼ直感的な形で演奏を行い残響フィードバックならではの極上レイヤー/反復を記録したハードコア。エンボススリーブ仕様、インサートカード付き。







Matte laminate and embossed sleeve, monochrome printing with insert card.

From Aviva Endean

Coming from a background as a performer and clarinet player, the opportunity to record my own music opened up a whole new context to think about music. Sounds are freed from being confined to one place, one time, or even one perspective. I wanted the recording to have a right-up-in-your-ear kind of intimacy - so close, that you could hear the beating of a moth’s wing, but I also wanted the listener to experience the expansiveness of the recorded space, like the vast night sky.

The microphones became extensions of my instruments, getting right up close to capture the microscopic, creating tones of feedback which captivated me, or zooming out to capture multiple acoustic spaces. My recording and composing process became more intuitive and explorative, another form of play. I could start creating and see where the piece would take me, and notice how new relationships were formed as I folded multiple time/spaces in and over each other.

Sometimes I would begin by gleaning sounds from my archives, and listening to how they could be reimagined and transformed alongside the discoveries my microphones and instruments were finding. In ‘Nightwork’ I wanted to find a way to revisit some microtonal humming that I had recorded for a sound design project, and then discovered the Leslie speaker as a way to spin my bass clarinet sound around the microphones, creating bass tones emerging as waves out of the densely layered pitches. Sometimes a new instrumental fascination, such as the e-bows and magnets on ‘Mirror Signals’ or the binaural microphone feedback on ‘Moths & Stars’ would call for me to find further layers of clarinets and field recordings to be woven into their story.