Label: Important Records

電磁波 + 声楽アンサンブルによる面白サウンドアート物件!!音響彫刻家でありインスタレーション作家であるドイツの重鎮サウンドアーティストChristina Kubisch。紫外線、太陽エネルギーなどの現象を様々な形に変容し作品化してきた人物の、その中でも最も有名な作品の一つである電磁波をサウンドに変換するプロジェクト。ジャケット・アートワーク通り古い路面電車に乗った際に発見したという電車が発する電磁波。その音を聞きながら、ノルウェーの声楽アンサンブル"ストロムゼンガー"が純粋な声の録音を複数制作、それら素材をベルリンの教会内部に流し一気に録音した音源が本作。硬質な電磁波と声楽のミックスが幽玄な美しさとなって現れる傑作。





Christina Kubisch’s Stromsänger finds this legendary sound artist at the top of her game mixing electromagnetic wave recordings with a score for six voices, creating powerful results.
“The general theme of the composition is the idea of sounds which travel. During a tram ride from the city upto the hills with an old tram I discovered not only stunning views of the surrounding landscape but as well aspecial soundscape. Wearing a custom made induction headphones, I could hear the normally hiddenelectromagneticfields of the tram, which were so impressive and musical to me that I immediately decided tobase my piece for Trondheim Voices on this discovery. As a start, a series of pure vocal recordings were produced by Trondheim Voiceswhile listening to a choice of electromagnetic tram sounds and following score instructions. This material was mixed in my Berlin studioand afterward was played back through a multi-loudspeaker setup into the room of the Elisabeth Church in Berlin and was instantaneously recorded. The emerged recording was played back and recorded again. The process of playing back the previous recording was repeated numerous times, generating numerous “re-recordings”, until the voices sounded aethereal and abstract. The last one of these recordings became thevery beginning of the Stromsängerpiece." - Christina Kubisch, 2024

Stromsänger is based on a collaboration with the Norwegian vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices and on a special experience while researching and recording electromagnetic waves in the city of Trondheim.