Label: Week-End Records

石橋英子氏、ジム・オルーク氏がドルトムントのエキシビジョン"Flowers in 20th and 21st Century Art"の為に制作したインスタレーション[Lifetime of a Flower]が音盤化!!日本家屋の庭に種を植え展示期間中に植物が成長する様子を撮影、来場者はその有機的プロセスを音に反映した作品を聴きながらリアルタイムで視聴するという興味深い作品。日常生活のノイズ、リズム、メロディーがミステリアスな多層音響となって複雑な変容を続ける2パートを収録。美しく、且つ彫刻の様に洗練された一枚。





Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O‘Rourke created the installation Lifetime of a Flower for the Dortmund exhibition Flowers in 20th and 21st Century Art. In it they set parameters, but allowed the process itself to literally grow uncontrollably: they planted seeds in the garden of their Japanese house and filmed as the plants grew for the duration of the exhibition. Visitors were able to watch the stream in real time, while listening to a composition that reflected the organic process in sound. This eponymous recording, now available on LP, is an enigmatic and sophisticated layering of sounds, melodies and rhythms, noises from everyday life, all of which are repositories of associations, memories and expectations.