Label: Room40

インスタレーションの為の音源!!多くのサブレーベルを持ち様々なスタイルの出版を続けた米インディペンデントレーベルDigitalis Recordingsを主宰、自身も音楽家として動き続ける奇才Brad RoseによるRoom40からの第二弾作品。多くの変名及びグループ活動で知られる人物ですが、前作同様に自身のパーソナルな経験/視点にて制作されたインスタレーション録音。"人間が環境に与える影響"、それが"世界の音風景をどのように変えているのか"をテーマに、秋の落ち葉の上を歩く音を増幅〜ライブ処理・ミックス〜設置されたスピーカーより再生するといった、人の行動が生み出す音の変化を表現として作品化したもの。アートワークも非常に美しい。





"The Sound Leaves" began as an interactive sound performance and installation based around humans’ impact on the environment and how that impact is altering the sonic landscape of our world. As ecosystems change due to climate collapse, the sound of those ecosystems changes too. "The Sound Leaves" used an amplified collection of autumn leaves to encourage participants to listen closely to how their actions alter the sounds of the fallen leaves by walking on and through them for a period of time. By amplifying these sounds, processing and mixing them live, and playing them back via a set of speakers directed at the installation, the performance heightened the sonic changes participants’ actions create.

From that performance, a sound piece by the same name was composed using the recorded sounds with additional instrumentation. It was installed as a temporary exhibition on site at Philbrook Musuem of Art during the winter of 2023, emanating from a grove of oak and elm trees.

A year later, as the climate crisis worsened, those same sounds were reprocessed and reconsidered, creating a more ghost-like approach, "In Collapse."