Label: Auf Abwegen

音楽家と写真家が共同で制作した美しい装丁のボックスセット!!90年頃に古いレコードやオープンリール、物、捨てられた楽器を使い音制作を開始した米サウンドアーティストSeth Nehil、そしてケージ、ラディーグ、フェラーリから強い影響を語り音源を残し続けるフランスのBruno Duplant、過去にも共作を発表している強者2者によるフィールドレコーディング・ベースの激ヤバ物件。本作は写真家のTJ NorrisとHarrison Higgsとのコラボレーション作であり、2枚のCDと10枚のカードをボックスに封入、一定の長さに調整された15種のサウンドスケープ音源と、19枚の画像を対話するように感受するというコンセプトで仕上げられた作品。遠くで鳴る楽器や人の声、変容するメロディ、電子音的な虫の声、編集を加えていない生々しさが非常に良いです。









(else)where is a collaboration between composers Bruno Duplant + Seth Nehil and photographers TJ Norris + Harrison Higgs, consisting of two CDs and 10 cards in a box set. Fifteen soundscapes, each a consistent length (5:00 and 10:00) are placed in conversation with 19 images, each a pairing of halves. Cards and sounds may be shuffled by the listener to create new juxtapositions. A poem by David Grubbs completes the set.
With Higgs & Nehil in the Pacific Northwest, Norris in Texas, and Duplant in Northern France, the artists exchanged materials in 2018 - 19, through multiple iterations of reconfiguration and response. They bring previous histories and connections to this project, with Norris curating Higgs and Nehil into art exhibitions and writing the liner notes for Duplant’s Quelques Usines Fantômes N°3, while Higgs has created numerous album covers for Nehil since 2008. Duplant and Nehil continued their sonic collaboration with (eco)systems on Stellage in 2021 and The Memory of Things on Sublime Retreat in 2022.
Distant instruments and voices, corroded melodies, electronic insects and low tones drift across a series of unedited field recordings - captured moments in time and space. A dream narrative emerges from fractured frames. Intersections of locations contain a collection of deceptions, interruptions and overlays. Discovered textures are placed alongside sculptural interventions and synthetic manipulations, in dialogue with the accidental.
File under: ambient, noise, field recording, musique concréte, sound art

Bruno Duplant: piano, tapes, electronic devices, field recordings, percussion
Seth Nehil: field recordings, electronics
Harrison Higgs & TJ Norris: photographs, digital manipulation
David Grubbs: poem