"'A FACT OF ANY SUCCESSFUL POP RECORD,' Brian Eno argued in Artforum’s summer issue in 1986, 'is that its sound is more of a characteristic than its melody or chord structure or anything else.' The advent of recording technology and synthesizers had by that time already exponentially broadened composers’ sonic palettes, and musical interest was no longer merely in melody, serialization, or polyphony, but in 'constantly dealing with new textures.' Over the last three decades, composer, visual artist, and turntablist extraordinaire Marina Rosenfeld has built up a library of dubplates—those rare, prized aluminum rounds coated in laquer and incised with a lathe used as test pressings off of which vinyl for mass-distribution is copied—that store the component parts of her distinct sonic landscapes: tinkling pianos, female voices, sine waves, snaps, crackles, and pops. ... This past May, Rosenfeld’s turntables met experimental musician Ben Vida’s modular synthesizer for a bout of improvisation at Fridman Gallery to celebrate the release of their collaborative record Feel Anything (2019). ..."
ARTFORUM
After 9 Evenings: Marina Rosenfeld & Ben Vida (Video)
Marina Rosenfeld & Ben Vida - Feel Anything (Audio)
Marina Rosenfeld , Ben Vida
YouTube: Marina ROSENFELD & Ben VIDA_PRESENCES électronique 2018
No comments:
Post a Comment