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Michael Pisaro
The Middle of Life (Die ganze Zeit)
LabelGravity WaveGenreElectronic
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Pisaro's fascinating composition created with guitar, bass, percussion, radio, electronics, and field recordings, using long gaps of silence resolved through a dynamic set of rich audio sections.
"The most convincing way to avoid reality is to lose yourself in the prickle of the field recording, as if it were bubble wrap. Here, technology chafes against a world of waves, pulses, and impacts, leaving to the ear and the imagination the task of estimating reality from scratch (at 12:35, a storm definitely begins, the mic singing along in feedback), or else abandoning that concern altogether and engaging in terms of what is only ever almost sound, and sound alone. To reduce the universe to the crepitations of a single, imaginary body is the dream of distortion at the heart of audio signal acquisition.
"A little after midnight came a strange sound from over the sea, and high overhead the air began to carry a strange, faint, hollow booming." Dracula's boat will soon crash on Whitby beach. Strain or cover your ears: the signal is never entirely beyond your control."-Scott Reid, TinyMixTapes
"The most convincing way to avoid reality is to lose yourself in the prickle of the field recording, as if it were bubble wrap. Here, technology chafes against a world of waves, pulses, and impacts, leaving to the ear and the imagination the task of estimating reality from scratch (at 12:35, a storm definitely begins, the mic singing along in feedback), or else abandoning that concern altogether and engaging in terms of what is only ever almost sound, and sound alone. To reduce the universe to the crepitations of a single, imaginary body is the dream of distortion at the heart of audio signal acquisition.
"A little after midnight came a strange sound from over the sea, and high overhead the air began to carry a strange, faint, hollow booming." Dracula's boat will soon crash on Whitby beach. Strain or cover your ears: the signal is never entirely beyond your control."-Scott Reid, TinyMixTapes
Details
Cat. number: GW 008
Year: 2013
Release notes
Oswald Egger recorded on 16 July 2012 in the fields outside of his residence in Hombroich, Germany. Field recordings made in Neufelden, Austria on 2 July 2012, on the bank of the Grosse Mühl river near a small rapids, and on 4 July 2012, about 500 meters further down the river.
Tracklist
| 1 | The Middle Of Life (Die Ganze Zeit) | 47:20 |
Credits
- Michael Pisaro
- Composed By, Recorded By, Piano, Electronics, Mixed By, Mastered By
- Antoine Beuger
- Flute [Second Field Recording]
- The Dog Star Orchestra
- Orchestra [Heard Intermittently Throughout Second Field Recording Section]
- Lucie Vitková
- Read By [Speaker, Czech And English]
- Graham Lambkin
- Read By [Speaker, English]
- Didier Aschour
- Read By [Speaker, French]
- Kristín Haraldsdóttir
- Read By [Speaker, Icelandic And English]
- Taku Sugimoto
- Read By [Speaker, Japanese And English]
- Kunsu Shim
- Read By [Speaker, Korean]
- Oswald Egger
- Text By [Poetry], Read By
- Julia Holter
- Voice, Composed By, Read By [Speaker, English]
