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Subject: 3LEAVES eNEWSLETTER Spring 2011
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:41:12 +0200
Dear Listeners,
I am delighted to offer two new 3LEAVES releases to your kind attention this time. The first is Simon Whetham's work "Connection" that reuses, treats and redefines the highly inspired recordings in its subtle way that he has made while in Prague in November 2010, and, "A Sound Map of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo" album by John Kannenberg which is a totally unique sound document of a museum that will never be like it was before the revolutionary events in Cairo in January 2011.
It is more pleasure to me to present introductory texts to these two new releases written by John Grzinich and Marc Weidenbaum. Please read more for further details.
Simon Whetham: Connection (3L007, CD-R, 100 numbered copies in Carlos Pak)
Compositions based on field recordings always raise a number of questions in my mind, particularly regarding the relation between the recorded sounds and their connection to the location or place where they were captured. This is particularly so with places I am familiar with as is the case with this work. Having visited and worked in Prague a number of times in the last decade I was curious to know if some aspects of Simon Whetham's sonic explorations of Prague would trigger any of my memories or associations... read more
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John Kannenberg: A Sound Map of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (3L008, CD-R, 100 numbered copies in Carlos Pak)
Fifteen minutes into John Kannenberg's extended, hour-long sound map of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the setting subsumes the sound. More to the point, the setting becomes the sound. His sound map is constructed from field recordings he made in and around the museum, and the museum at that moment moves from structure to participant, from frame to portrait, from context to subject.
Voices had been heard up until that point, a rumbling and slow-moving pack of adult humans, but those voices are suddenly transformed, dramatically, at the quarter hour. The rapturous transformation... read more
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Kind regards,
Ákos Garai
< also available >
Mathieu Ruhlmann & Banks Bailey: Anáádiih
Ákos Garai: Barges & Flows
Mark Peter Wright: Inanimate Life
Rod Cooper: Accepting The Machines
Lasse-Marc Riek: Habitats
Ákos Garai: Pilis
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