Label: Paradigm Discs

2000年頃まで活動した日本人作曲家によるミュージック・コンクレート小作品!!1987年よりロンドンを拠点に活動を展開、サウンド・インスタレーション、コンテンポラリー・ダンスの音楽、コンサート録音など多岐にわたる作品を手掛け、アルス・エレクトロニカの受賞歴もある日本人作曲家Akemi Ishijima。スウェーデン実験界の重要拠点Fylkingen Recordsのコンピレーションにも参加していた人物の、唯一のソロ名義ミニアルバム[Time Drops]。鐘を鳴らし、その余韻がまるで水面に波紋を広げる雨粒の様に変容する2000年制作の表題曲、卵が割れる音と振り子の動作の周期性を利用した1993年[Ab Ovo]、電子音楽ファンには堪らない非常に聞き応えのある大推薦タイトル。(5:20、13:47、2曲のみの収録となります)





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This mini CD follows on from her previous electroacoustic composition on 'Variations 2 - a London compilation' Paradigm Discs (PD 05). It includes one new piece and a reissue of 'Ab Ovo', previously released on '5 composers second coming' Fylkingen (FYCD 1003). The 2 pieces explore a broad range of traditional electronic techniques, both subtle and powerful. Time Drops (2000). A single stroke of a bell, in its decay, sometimes evokes a sense of infinity in our mind. Time Drops is an attempt to express such ideas as infinity, cosmic equilibrium, and moments of creation in the form of electroacoustic music. Like rain drops making rings in water, the sound generates rings of oscillation, which create parallel universes and coexisting ones. As each sound appears and disappears, the perpetual process of creation and decline in the cosmic equilibrium is experienced in the presence and non-presence of multiple resonance. A mystery still remains around the question of how it all began.Time Drops creates a poetic correspondence with cosmic harmony. Ab Ovo (1993). I once saw, in a science film, a pendulum placed in a peculiar type of magnetic field. It kept swinging in different directions for a while until it stopped at a non-perpendicular position. I was fascinated. I started imagining and creating electroacoustic sketches associated with this image, for example a tiny air vibration caused by the passage of a pendulum etc. Reflection upon two major aspects of the motion of the pendulum - periodicity, and the effect of interfering force - brought in another sound source eg. an egg. When I heard the amplified sound of an egg breaking in the studio, the composition magically came together. The piece starts with a rather striking impact of breaking an egg. This initiates the whole journey through the imaginary sound world circling around eternity and the inevitable point of disruption in a figure of eight. Composed at the Electroacoustic Music Studio of the University of East Anglia, England, 1993.