Label: Aposiopese

Second SleepやUnfathomless、Dinzu Artefactsに作品を残す孤高のサウンドアーティストのLP音源!!1974年イタリア出身、音と物質の関係性に焦点を当て、旧式のメディア/電子機器を取り入れたサウンドインスタレーションや彫刻作品を発表してきたAndrea Borghi。VHSテープや再生機器を直接的に操作、剥き出しになった内部機構から得られるサウンドを用い異質のサウンドスケープを作り上げた作品[Palsecam]。記録メディアが発する親しみのある音、また得体の知れないが絶えず変化しながら混ざり合い、まさに"機械仕掛けのノスタルジー"的独特の音響となって続きます。









True to form, Borghi works directly with VHS tapes and the apparatus that plays them, manipulating the exposed mechanisms with the care and curiosity of a dedicated scientist. Drawing from these manual manipulations, Borghi's experiments combine mechanical sounds with mangled tape samples to inspire a mechanised nostalgia inseparably hybridised with human trace. Unlike others who work with old film, he resists the eerie to focus on the intricate crunch and buzz, an electro-acoustic soundscape tangentially related to the field recordings. By highlighting the precise moment that recorded media becomes perceived, a restless, shifting mass of both familiar and unrecognisable sounds results in a unique form of otic chiaroscuro. The result is a complication of inside and outside sounds: distant, gesturing snippets of semi-remembered, half-imagined films compete with TV cathode burn, tracking stutters, mechanical interference, and vérité whirrs and clicks that could only come from that original reproducer of dreams, the VHS player. With Palsecam Borghi gives dignity to an often maligned format, in an engaging mélange that represents the recovery of an object discarded as an objet d'art.