Friday, August 28, 2009

Jonty Harrison - Articles Indéfinis (Empreintes DIGITALes, 1996)



These early glimpses into the sound works of UK-based composer Jonty Harrison showcase his longstanding playfulness with sound and form. Harrison is a champion of listening inside sounds, enabling him the rare ability to transform without dampening the integrity of his sources. The eleven suites of … et ainsi de suite… explore a vast sonic space at the center of which lies the chime and clatter of a pair of wine glasses. Similar explorations on the sounds of balloons and air itself factor into subsequent recorings here. That play on the recognizable sound figures into much of Harrison's work, as the unraveling of his processes reveals a strangeness in the real that one can carry over into day-to-day listening.

Articles Indéfinis

2 comments:

  1. Wow - this is great! You don't happen to have 'Evidence Matérielle' on the same label, do you?

    Tremendous blog

    Thank you!

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  2. Oops. Gone! Any chance of re-upping this please? Thanks!

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