Label: Swarming

メチャクチャ素晴らしいミュージック・コンクレート的編集!!20年以上に渡り環境に耳を傾け、自身の考える音の美学を拡大して来たサウンドアート界の大ベテランEric La Casa。以前よりインスタレーション等でも共演してきた大ベテラン・パーカッショニスト村山政二朗 氏とのデュオ録音を自身のSwarmingからリリース。Eric La Casaが日常風景やら街の雑踏サウンドをコントロールしつつ放射、合間の静寂に合わせ村山氏のパーカッションが絶妙過ぎるタイミングでドカドカと投下される、まるで人力コンクレートを体感しているかの様な印象。16ページブックレット付き、美しいトレース封筒入りパッケージ。







Booklet 16 pages (images/texts french/english)
Audio CD 40 minutes
limited edition of 150 copies

Recordings : june 2019 - october 2022
extra field recordings : 2003-23
Editings and mixings : Spring - Summer 2023

When and how does a gesture leave the domain of the ordinary for that of the extraordinary, and is perceived as such by all ? Where, within each space, is the threshold of the extraordinary, and therefore of the musical ?

Whether playing percussion or recording, when do our gestures become musical ? (...)
Where, within each space, is the threshold of the extraordinary, and therefore of the musical ? Isn't this what making an event consists of ? Deliberately interrupting the continuity of the ordinary. What is sure is that our small, simple, repeated gestures do produce a series of frictions with this ordinariness, gradually leading to slight discontinuities that significantly alter the course of daily life.