Label: Other Minds

反復とミニマルな手法にフォーカスしたサウンドポエトリー作!!アート系指南書Broken Music掲載でもお馴染み、多くのサウンドポエトリー名作を手掛けた出版社3Vitreの設立者である音声詩アーキビストのEnzo Minarelli。ジャケットデザインを見ての通り、コペルニクスが太陽系の地動説を発見した出来事をサウンド・ポエトリーに置き換え、構文よりも人間の声そのものを重視しそれを革命と訴えた作品。内容は自身の声、ファウンドサウンド、シンセサイザー、ドラムマシンを用い、グリッチ・ミュージックや躍動の強いグルーヴを音声詩の要素と組み合わせた、妙なカッコ良さで統一したハイブリッドな作品集。インナースリーヴには本人のライナーノーツを掲載。









Deluxe LP in a limited edition of 300 with printed inner sleeve featuring liner notes by the composer

Other Minds Records is pleased to announce de revolutionibus: sound homage to Copernicus, a new limited edition LP release from legendary text-sound poet Enzo Minarelli.

Minarelli compares the revolution of sound poetry to the revolution that Copernicus brought about with his discovery of the heliocentric nature of the solar system. Just like Copernicus put the sun at the center of the solar system, sound poets centered the human voice—and thus the sensuous nature of a text—over traditional systems of syntax.

Throughout de revolutionibus, the literal definitions of the words are stripped through repetition and minimalist processes, and layers of varying fidelity of the vocal recording obscure any intelligibility even further. Minarelli deftly combines his voice with found sound, synthesizer, and drum machine accompaniment, vacillating between something like noise assemblage and mutant hip hop.

de revolutionibus is at once a continuation and expansion of the vast corpus that the artist has built over his decades-long career. Elements of glitch music, pulsing drums, and grooving low frequencies are paired with more traditional elements of phonetic poetry creating an extraterrestrial hybrid, part avant-pop and part maximalist Dada treatise.