17-12-2009, 05:23
Tiggi Wrote:Cheers to Jon for the heads-up.I'm glad you like it.
Lionel Marchetti and Yôko Higashi - Untitled #2 from Pétrole [Entr'acte, 2009]
Quote:...This is musique concrète built from recordings taken from the real world – a shout, a whistle, an engine – but none of the familiar transformative techniques of the genre’s pioneers are in evidence: no obvious cases of speeding up, slowing down, or reversal. Everything seems to be done by montage alone. The source of some sounds is easily identified (significantly so: a particular noise carries extra baggage once it is identified as a scream) while for others the source seems entirely unimportant. This is the case for the conventional instrumentalists credited here, among them Axel Dörner on trumpet – you do not hear them as playing instruments so much as adding one more sound to the mix, a sound that could have been produced by any means. The less conventional credits may point in a different direction: Rocco Calaudi is “Harley Davidson Conductor” and Yôko Higashi plays a Citroën CX 2000...- The Cookshop