Label: Consumer Waste - cw21

母国オーストラリア以外では殆どその活動は知られていないという、廃棄された電子機器を美術品として蘇らせる活動を10年以上に渡り続けてきたサウンドアーティストPeter Blamey。英Consumer Wasteの2年振りの新作音盤として登場。地元に建設予定という発電所の候補地近くに抗議の為に設置した自作システムの録音。光電池、自家製電磁石、タービンを使った物音フェチには堪らない内容です。7インチサイズのレタープレス再生紙ジャケにてブックレット付き、限定150。

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Little known outside of his native Australia, Peter Blamey has been recuperating discarded electronics into artworks for more than a decade. As Douglas Kahn writes in his sleeve notes here, he belongs to an artistic tradition unique to Australia that trades sound and energy. Having cut his teeth in an extensive exploration of disposed motherboards, Blamey has more recently worked with photo-voltaic cells, homemade electromagnets and rudimentary turbines to propose dialogues between sound, power and the elemental forces of wind, water and light. The work here was produced at the Bogong Centre for Sound Culture, near to the site of a proposed new major hydroelectric plant. The five interventions documented here comprise a quiet protest against this industrial instrumentalising of landscape.

Released in oversized 7" package with letterpress backpanel and a 16 page booklet with notes by Douglas Kahn and photographs of the sites and equipment used.