notes on an untitled noh horspiel

che senso hanno i field recordings
che senso hanno i field recordings contaminati con suoni digitali ed analogici.
che senso hanno i field recordings contaminati seguendo regole ferree in stile dogma
che senso ha racchiudere il tutto in un concept puntuale e visionario

Number One [with KK.NULL & Chris Watson] KK.NULL/Chris Watson/z'ev
Number One
CD - 5 tracks - 48:15
Touch # Tone 24
Artwork & photography: Jon Wozencroft

Track titles:

1. Invocation
2. Introduction
3. Development
4. Climax
5. Conclusion



Z'EV writes: "In March of 2003 seeing my friends Stephen & Josephine in Los Angeles they suggested that i get in touch with japanese composer/performer KK.NULL. There followed a string of weird email occurrences which delayed our communicating until, as it turned out, we eventually met in Paris on 18 November.After his performance we were talking about a possible collaboration and during his set a possibility had occurred to me. I ran the idea by him and we agreed to proceed with it. The idea had 3 elements: 1 - to use the structure of the NOH THEATRE cycle as the basis for the composition. 2 – to consider the initial sound development in terms of developing ‘characters’ which would then interact with one another through the specific “scene” [which is a fairly non-traditional way to work with sound elements] and 3 – to place the ‘character interactions’ as the 'figure' inside of particular sound-scapes as the ‘ground'.



So in January 2004 I returned to London and began to work on my initial character developments. Coincidentally at this time I received a copy of a CD compilation i had a piece on which was released by TOUCH, which also had a piece by Chris Watson. So i got on the phone to TOUCH who put me in touch with Chris who has joined in on the project.

Sometime after I had completed mixing the 5 pieces, I sent a copy to my friend Boyd Rice. He emailed me back: "This is the first avant-garde piece I have heard in years that is truly avant-garde."

In the production process, Z'EV framed his and KK.NULL's electro-acoustic musics inside Chris Watson's field recordings from East Africa. A dynamic dialogue and inside-outside mirroring of natural and synthetic sound is the result: where the click and rhythm of an insect merges with KK.NULL's drumming; where the calls of the elephants combine with the electronic bass frequencies; where bird and frog song and Z'EV's harmonic structures produces surprising counterpoints.


For further information on the artists:

KK.NULL - http://www.kknull.com/
Chris Watson - http://www.chriswatson.net
Z'EV - http://www.rhythmajik.com [in the section 'projects' you can follow the email trail of the collaboration]


qui
potete trovare un samples da accompagnare alla lettura del post




più passa il tempo più mi convinco che l'eterna ricerca del "senso" è un dramma tipico dell'uomo come la religione e forse l'amore.
per cui ora mi ascolto moha!