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偉業的リリース!!70年代名作の再構築バージョンが登場!!36ページ・ブックレット付き!!60年代に多彩なガラスのサウンドを使用したコンサートを展開、その後水の動きに魅了され川の音のサウンドアーカイブを手掛ける様になるニュージーランド出身の巨匠サウンドアーティストAnnea Lockwood。1975年後半に完成、マルチチャンネル環境におけるフィールドレコーディングの可能性を探求した氏の初期傑作[World Rhythms]が50年の時を経て新たな形態にて単独リリース。オリジナルマスターテープから復元をする過程で発見した作品のダイナミズムを元に、新たなサウンドフィールドの探求を作品化したコンクレート。ブックレットにはエッセイとインタビュー、関連する歴史的資料や写真を掲載。



Matte laminate, embossed and monochrome printed sleeve with insert cd, plus a 36 page book featuring an essay for and interview with Annea Lockwood addressing her composition World Rhythms. The book also features historical documents and photographs related to the work.

A note from Lawrence English

In late 1975, Annea Lockwood realised her composition World Rhythms. It represents one of the first creative works exploring the potentials of field recordings in a multichannel setting. It is a landmark work and a composition that, on its 50th anniversary, has gently carried forward over the decades, but arguably now is only starting to come into true focus, and be understood for exactly how revolutionary it was.

World Rhythms was a work concerned with a practice of sustained listening into the world, and beyond. It expanded outward from many of the compositions and themes Annea Lockwood had been exploring since the 1960s. It sought to take those learnings and apply them to a new set of terrains and circumstances. Moreover, it suggested a sensing of sound that was drawn from profound curiosity, matched only by patience.

In 2019, I reached out to Annea and started a conversation about a revisitation of World Rhythms. My initial proposition was a simple one: a re-issue that was remastered and touched up, reflecting Annea’s thoughts on the piece in this moment.

The conversation quickly spun outward though, and before long Annea had asked if I might be interested to revisit the master tapes with the thought that the work could be revived and prepared for performance presentations going forward into this century.

On listening to the materials, during the period of restoring the audio from the original master tapes, I was struck by the profound dynamism of the recordings. Each of the sound-fields held an attentive flux, a rhythmic pulse that was breathing. Each one a story of the pulses of the world, and our universe, that spoke to a possible reading of reality that sits in excess of our everyday capacities. A poetics of pulse if you like.

Here then is the result of those conversations and also the presentations of the piece that followed - several of which Annea has overseen herself. On this newly rendered imagining of World Rhythms, new relations, listening paths and ways of exploring her sound-fields are brought into focus. The core of the piece remains, a prioritised zone of listening, but emerging from deep within it new sonic formations emerge, a reminder of the dynamism of our energetic world and its surroundings.