Label: Another Timbre

お見逃し無く!!エリアン・ラディーグの[Occam Ocean]シリーズにてヴィオラを担当していた人物の完全ソロ!!音響芸術の分野で活動する音楽家兼キュレーター、ヴィオラ奏者としては作曲活動及び即興演奏家として動き、特にエリアン・ラディーグとは多くのコラボレーションを行っている強者プレイヤーのJulia Eckhardt。スペインの田舎町"ブランカ"でのレジデンス期間中、日常的に行っていた散歩からインスピレーションを得た8つの(各5分)のヴィオラソロ作。記憶の痕跡を残す為の即興演奏とありますが、各録音が現地の音風景となって見事に現れた、ドローンファンにもリーチするであろう傑作。



Eight 5-minute compositions inspired by daily walks taken by Julia Eckhardt during a residency in rural Spain:

"In November 2022, I spent a month as an artist in residency at Centro Negra in the small town of Blanca in the South-East of Spain. I undertook a daily protocol of walking without plan or destination which took me into the wide, majestic, and slightly intimidating hills outside the town. Each day, after a set amount of time I stopped to make a field recording and a detail photo, and upon my return to Centro Negra, recorded an improvisation on the viola echoing the energy of that accidental place. Recording, image and improvisation became three ways of creating imprints of memory. Improvising felt similar to walking into the unknown; adventurous and slightly fearful at the same time, with the wind in the wide and karstic landscape, unhampered by the sparse vegetation, being a constant presence. Eight of these improvisations became the compositions on this release in which the wind patterns of Blanca are a guiding presence."

The disc contains a booklet with a selection of the photographs Julia Eckhardt took on her walks.