Label: Sound Anatomy - SA004

年配の音楽家による英国のトリオグループTwinkle³の一員であり、主にモジュラーシンセで電子音を担当している大ベテランコンポーザーRichard Scott。他者とのコラボレートも得意な作家ですが、今回の相手は共演史上最もアヴァン？といえるチャイニーズアメリカンのチェリスト/シンガーAudrey Chen。彼女のボイスを電子加工しまくる完全にサウンドポエトリーな一枚であり、アンリショパンばりに口を鳴らすオドロオドロしく強靭な音源が満載。これは大推薦。





“Hiss and Viscera” is Sound Anatomy’s fourth album release and presents a striking debut recording from two highly distinctive voices in the richly varied Berlin improvising scene. On the face of it the human voice and analogue synthesizer may appear to have little in common but Chen and Scott share an intuitive, corporeal and dynamic sound world out of which an intense and sustained musical conversation develops. Phrases and interjections bounce and ricochet between Chen’s vivid lexicon of glottal pops, rasps and expulsions and Scott’s exhaustive catalogue of electronic clangs, plosives and propulsions. The resultant musical conversation may not always seem entirely human in origin, conjuring sonic images of stories, languages and environments populated by many unearthly creatures, real or imagined.