A beautiful review of our LAnormalite // La Déviance project in Vital Weekly! MARTIJN PIECK - LANORMALITE/LA DEVIANCE (CD and booklet) Here we have a small art project, combining art and music together. Its an exchange of sound and visuals. We have the music of one Martijn Pieck, of whom I dont think heard before, and who took pictures and field recordings from suburbs and those pictures became the scores for his compositions; visual artists respond to the music. Their five visual works are printed on some great quality card, which come with a description of the piece on the other side. Maybe its all a bit complicated, but it works well as a gesamtkunstwerk. At Vital Weekly we are mainly concerned with music of course, although these five visual works looks actually great (as well as quite diverse). Sound and images deal with the spatial quality of sound and image. The music indeed has some of this spatial character. One can choose to play this very loud - which I usually dont do - and youll fine your space be overflown with sound information; it works better, I think, if one plays this at a more aver age volume and let the sound flow more naturally through your own space. Pieck offers a variation on the themes microsound and drone, both guided by the word dark. Its not as musique concrete like as the work of say Marc Beherens or Roel Meelkop and not as drone like as say Machinefabriek or Machinist (whose Zeno van den Broek is actually one of the participating visual artists). In the fourth piece there is the sound of piano, which may be the first instrument we recognize in this otherwise highly abstract sound world. All of the field recordings are effectively melted down into continuous loops of sounds, constructed into five pieces of excellent atmospheric music. Im not sure if Im supposed to think that the suburbs are a dark place, but whatever: this is an excellent set of sound pieces, and an excellent set of visuals, all presented in very high quality and limited to 200 copies only. (FdW) Available at paume.nl
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:53:06 +0000
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