Sunday, March 18, 2007

Christina Kubisch & Fabrizio Plessi-Two and Two,LP,1976,Italy


Christina Kubisch belongs to the first generation of sound artists. Trained as a composer, she has artistically developed such techniques as magnetic induction to realize her installations. Since 1986 she has added light as an artistic element to her work with sound.
Christina Kubisch's work displays an artistic development which is often described as the "synthesis of arts" - the discovery of acoustic space and the dimension of time in the visual arts on the one hand, and a redefinition of relationships between material and form on the other.

Two And Two was a live performance for two performers (Kubisch and Plessi), two video cameramen, a wall of monitors and uncommon objects and instruments. Throughout the performances, people were invited to walk around and observe the live action in real time as close up images of the performance were projected on video screens and unusual objects as sound sources -- a vibrator, water, swanee whistle, voice, contact microphone on ventilator, prepared alto flute, electronic metronome, waterjet on steeldrum -- were sonically 'blown up' through self invented systems of amplification. The resulting four pieces on this 1977 recording alternate between heavenly, rhythmically shifting drones to gamelan tinged blistering electronics that sound like distant, corrupted morse code dispatches. The entire album is an organic revelation of the discreet acoustic nature of everyday objects, intensely mechanical, startling and elemental .
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5 comments:

  1. If you pay to d/l this album from http://www.emusic.com/album/10924/10924603.html
    the artists presumably get a cut.

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  2. Ooh, that was a fun listen. Thanks. =)

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  3. thanks, this is interesting. I'd be happy to hear 'Tempo liquido' too..

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  4. just wanted to share. get my first gemm – TOPY 007 Turning Shrines "Face Of Another" (12") on http://www.haundbound.blogspot.com/

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  5. thanks for support. 50 users have downloaded the gemm.

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