Label: Entr'acte - E167

再プレス！！これは大推薦！！晩年、喉頭結核を患っていたチェコの作家フランツ・カフカが、友人達と会話をする為に書いた言葉、走り書き、メモが残されたノートを、なんと楽譜として演奏してしまったという作品！！このノートに触発された5名のサウンドアーティスト、即興演奏家が行った2012年のスタジオ録音を、HapticのメンバーでもあるJoseph Clayton Millsが最終的にミックスして仕上げたのが本作。サウンドポエトリー、ノイズ、即興、クラシックまでと幅の広い展開が魅力。美麗装丁。マスト。

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“During his final illness (tuberculosis of the larynx)
at the sanatorium in Kierling, Kafka was not supposed
to speak, an injunction he obeyed most of the time.
He communicated with Dora Dymant, Robert Klopstock,
and others by scribbling notes on slips of paper.
Usually these notes were mere hints; his friends
guessed the rest.”—Max Brod

Inspired by and incorporating fragmentary notes written
by Franz Kafka on his deathbed to communicate with
friends and family, The Patient draws from the texts of
these conversation slips for specific imagery, textures,
mood, gestures, and instrumentation. The score —
essentially an index of suggestions to guide structured
improvisation — was initially performed at Chicago’s
Experiemental Sound Studio in the fall of 2012 by
Olivia Block (piano/walkie-talkies/objects), Noé Cuéllar
(accordion/psalter/cassette player/objects), Steven
Hess (percussion/cassette player), Joseph Clayton Mills
(electronics/cassette player/objects), and Jason Stein
(bass clarinet). Recordings of that performance were
subsequently augmented, rearranged, and assembled
by Mills into the finished album. Additional material
provided by Megan Rodgers and Seonaid Valiant.