tea house at kiyosumi garden, tokyo
04_2009
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The piece was premiered at Kiyosumi Garden in Tokyo on april 28th 2009. It was part of the soundgardening series of concerts organized by Philippe Chatelain (Laptop Orchestra). There has been three of them: Vol 1. on april 28th 2009, Vol. 2 on august 15th 2009 and Vol 3. on september 25th 2009. All concerts were played thru headphones, electricy came from an independant generator.
I would like to thank him together with Philippe Codognet and Bertrand Nouvel for their support.
Perforations I recomposes information coming from the surrounding quiet nature. Time and sounds from the garden are freely evolving to a more complex and strongly structuralism with perforated sounds: from lovely tiny holes to a huge deep black hole.
「パーフォレーションＩ」は、茶室の周りの静かな自然音を再構成する。庭からの時間と音は、自由により複雑な音と発展する。かわいらしい小さな穴から巨大な深いブラックホールへと。Philippe Chatelain、Philippe Codognet、Bertrand Nouvelの両氏に感謝したい。
In The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord describes a system where an advanced capitalist system works in conjunction with powerful mass media. This situation has been reached a long time ago and it is now completely digested by our cultures. Mass media and commodity fetishism do not need to be hidden anymore; they are even intrinsically the skeleton of the world’s economy. World trade exchanges, marketing strategies and reproduction revolutions made the relative value of materials completely disconnected to reality. On another hand, scientism and technologies have made a strong and safe connection with reality. Since philosophers from the 18th century, we are considering our re-materialization by a de-materialization. We are creating one reality while being totally disconnected from other possible ones. Within a few centuries, this unique fake reality has become so preeminent it avoids other opportunities to emerge. Since the system is better and better organized, life seems to be harder and harder for strait gangsters to live.
Finding free spaces and time to think has always been difficult but this time, we are now entering in a stronger period of information inquisition. We are forced to have a comfortable life and lose our freedom of personal fantasy. This fact is inherent to any society but this time is getting stronger. Fortunately, people’s nature tendency protects freedom of thinking so there will always be gangsters.
Perforations I recomposes information coming from the surrounding quiet nature. Time and sounds from the garden are freely evolving to a more complex and strongly structuralism. Despite respect to the place, information is being perforated; from lovely tiny wholes to a huge deep black whole. The composed succession of perforations make this piece a unique object between three pieces: one inside, one outside and one between the wholes. This is a subtractive composition, a inverted piece of music where elements are removed instead of being set.
sound “gardening” vol. 2
carl stone at sound “gardening” vol. 3
sound “gardening” vol. 3
sound “gardening” vol. 3
sound “gardening” vol. 3
olivier pasquet at asahi center