Label: Art into Life / companysha - AIL041 / cmpns-004

(予約受付中 - 11月25日リリース)

多岐に渡るメディアを横断するスコットランドの詩人・美術家Alec Finlayが、英国最大の山脈”ケアンゴームズ”を題材に詩、エッセイ、地図、写真、散策ガイドを用い、マッピングにて実践し書籍化したプロジェクト『gathering』(Hauser & Wirth Publishers - 2018)。本作はその一環としてフィールド・レコーディングの第一人者であるChris Watsonと協働、現地の消失した生態系の再現及び記憶を辿った音響作品。広大な土地より絶滅した動物、また在来種にまつわる11のレコーディング・ポイントを選定、鳴き声が収録されたオリジナルのレコードを1枚のみプレスし、各場所にてポータブル・プレーヤーで再生を行い現環境との再録音を実施したもの。過去と現在の音環境を通じ土地の記憶を多義的に紐解く記録物。

各ポイントで再生した動物の声や場所の詳細、録音風景の写真を掲載したA4サイズの20ページブックレット付き(英語/日本語 - 訳=工藤遥 :カンパニー社)。DLコードが付属。











Scottish poet and artist Alec Finlay, whose work ranges across many media, took the Cairngorms, Scotland’s largest mountain range, as the subject of gathering (Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2018). The project used poems, essays, maps, photographs and walking guides to carry out a practice of mapping and was published as a book. As part of that project, Finlay worked with Chris Watson, a leading figure in field recording, on this sound work, which recreates the area's lost ecosystems and traces their memory. Across this vast landscape they chose eleven recording points, each associated with an extinct animal or a native species. A single copy of an original record containing the animals' calls was pressed and played on a portable player at each site, and the playback was re-recorded together with the present-day surroundings. The result is a document that unravels the many-layered memory of the land through the soundscapes of past and present.

Includes a 20-page A4 booklet with details of each location and the animal sounds played at each point, plus photographs of the recording sessions (in English and Japanese; Japanese translation by Haruka Kudo, companysha). Comes with a download code.