Label: Flag Day Recordings

数ある音源の中でも特別激推しの物件!!サウンドアート、フィールドレコーディングの分野において多くの良作を残し続けているUKのベテラン作家Simon Whetham。本作[Channelling]は、古くなり廃棄された旧式の民生用デバイスを回収し様々な部品を活用、それらに増幅した音を流し込むことで再び生命を吹き込むという、音響と運動をテーマとしたパフォーマンス録音。モーター及び機構は音の信号に反応して予測不能に動き、そこから生み出されるデバイスの動作音がさらに増幅され響き渡るという、兎に角無骨で生々しい物体/電子音が仰け反るほどにカッコイイ作品。











• Glass Master CD
• 16-bit/44.1 khz
• 4 Panel Digipak
• 350g Cardboard
• Liner Notes
• Full Color Artwork

Channelling is a kinetic sound performance that utilizes various components salvaged from discarded and obsolete consumer technology, reanimating them by piping amplified sound through them. The motors and mechanisms respond to these sound impulses in erratic and unpredictable ways. The actions of, and emanations from, the devices are subsequently amplified.

"An array or swarm of vitalities, intertwined, of non human powers which transit channels. Trajectories that follow machinal logics, preselected and predictable; suddenly they exploit an aesthetic of the interruption or malfunction. Uncertain assemblages without intentions that remembers well the emergentivism, unpredictable and highly creative of Alexander. The nisus of the Greek which is the pulse of things to reach anew, the creative impetus.

Cracks, leaks, turbulences. Frictions, rebounds, scrapes. Ignitions, drags, silent intermissions. Batiments, without cause, immersed in a logic of contingency.

How much in common do we have the human and the non-human. How much shared vitality. The same impulse of things in beings. Lags, obstructions, desynchronizations. Fluids, currents, forces. Channels, connectivity, and its broken connection.

From the darkness of the macrobial soil or an intertidal zone, to the interior of a tubular structure, the similar search: the porous and the minute, the precarious taking an unusual power.

Is there any allusion to the high instability caused by consumption? A sonic reflection on the transversality of the vital where conflicts, confrontations, catastrophes and incidents articulate a microworld?"

Marianela Calleja, April 2024