Author: fieldreporter
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Tanabe, Voltear. BEN OWEN (CON-V 2011) One leaf lets go, and then another takes the wind. – Ransetsu The 17th century Japanese haiku poet Ransetsu was renowned for his compassion and for his poetical austerity. The four works in this series…
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Phonography meeting 070823. SCOTT SMALLWOOD, SAWAKO, SETH CLUETT, BEN OWEN, CIVYIU KKLIU (Winds Measure 2011) It’s always nice to get in the mailbox Winds Measure releases and one of the reasons is their packaging: visual design is clean, austere and sober, paper…
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Surface scripts. JOHN GRZINICH (Semperflorens 2010) Listening to Surface Scripts made me think more deeply about the notion of the sound object, originally Pierre Schaeffer’s objet sonore and now a hotly debated term which means several things to different people. Getting…
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Drenaje subterráneo. PABLO RECHE, JUAN JOSÉ CALARCO (Siridisc 2012) Juan José Calarco is a widely know sound artist from Argentina whose work has a “Musique concrete” approach as he crafts this dazing beautiful experiences that strongly affects our sense of space…
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Vertikale skift. TERJE PAULSEN, ÁKOS GARAI (Gruenrekorder 2011) Terje Paulsen and Ákos Garai are both widely known artists whose work is formally very different: the sound of Terje Paulsen is more artificial while the sound of Ákos Garai is more natural and phonographic. On…
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Interview with Ákos Garai Ákos Garai is a sound artist who also runs the label 3 Leaves. His works “Barges and flows”, “3 Shaded Leaves” and “Vertikale skift” (with Terje Paulsen) and the releases published by 3Leaves during 2011 all…