Claudio Baroni, Maze
The Body Imitates The Landscape
LabelUnsoundsGenreExperimental
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The music on this album originates in the interactive sound installation The Body Imitates the Landscape by artist Adi Hollander: she designed a collection of ergonomic objects that are meant to transform music into vibrations felt through the entire body. Hollander was inspired by the Japanese book Karada by Michitaro Tada about the ‘school of the body’. Hollander and Claudio F. Baroni made a live version of the installation where Baroni’s music, performed by Maze, was experienced live by the public. As it was channeled through the objects, the public could at once hear the music in the space and feel it in their bodies.
This album features 11 pieces, each, as in the book Karada, dedicated to a part of the body. Baroni has written those 11 pieces for the Ensemble Maze around recorded whispered voices. This is Baroni’s third collaboration with Unsounds. It comes with liner notes by Reinaldo Laddaga (a important guest on Unsounds with Things That A Mutant Needs To Know and The Men From Russia).
Release notes
The Body Imitates the Landscape, for tape transducer speakers & ensemble (2018) by Claudio F. Baroni was commissioned and premiered by MAZE Ensemble, with financial support from The Performing Arts Fund NL. The project was realized in collaboration with visual artist Adi Hollander and Maze Ensemble. The text of the libretto is a selection from Karada ('body') by Mitchitado Tada, translated from Japanese to English by Tomiko Sasagawa Stahl and Anna Kazumi Stahl. In memory of Robert Ashley…
| 1 | Atama (the Head) A Cat Body Resembles Nothing So Much As A Pillow | 5:03 | |
| 2 | Kao (the Face) The Face Has A Near Monopoly Of Sensation | 4:51 | |
| 3 | Kata (the Shoulder) The Future Will Surely Belong To The Tactile | 5:01 | |
| 4 | Senaka (the Back) The Back Is Visible To Our Eyes | 4:19 | |
| 5 | Hara (the Belly) The Moon And The Belly United | 3:36 | |
| 6 | Heso (the Navel) Navel Is Memory, Remembrance | 4:02 | |
| 7 | Uesuto (the Waist) The Body Imitates The Landscape | 4:00 | |
| 8 | Hippu (the Hip) Sun, Water And Air | 3:47 | |
| 9 | Koshi (the Pelvis) Priest And Devil | 5:45 | |
| 10 | Oshiri (the Butt) Power Is Expressed By Accretion | 5:03 | |
| 11 | Ashi (legs & Feet) Two Lovers Walk Burabura, Shoulder To Shoulder | 4:31 |
- Anne La Berge
- Alto Flute
- Gareth Davis
- Bass Clarinet
- Claudio Baroni
- Composed By, Electronics
- Isabelle Vigier
- Design
- Dario Calderone
- Double Bass
- Wiek Hijmans
- Electric Guitar
- Reinier Van Houdt
- Keyboards
- Reinaldo Laddaga
- Liner Notes
- Enric Monfort
- Percussion
- Maze
- Performer
- Micha De Kanter
- Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By
