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small music Stumbled upon a CD in the record store today: Small Music, Vol. 1, by Rolf Julius. On this disc, Julius creates teeming chatter from "electronic buzzer instruments" and "nature sound from Brazil and Japan." The three resultant tracks sound like either the dense wet heart of a rainforest or a complex global information system made audible. This unusual paper on Julius suggests that he might be synaesthetic, and discusses some of his installation work: "The approximately 80 metres long barrel vault of the gallery was empty except for four groups of four loudspeakers each standing on the floor in a square arrangement. A square glass plate rested on each group. Julius sieved nearly circular heaps of red and black pigment onto the glass plates. Quiet music came out of the loudspeakers, consisting of a sustained gently chirping rushing undercoating of the room and somewhat lower pitched sounds appearing in the foreground as short actions. There were intervals of ten to more than thirty seconds duration between these short motifs." Information on other volumes in Julius' Small Music series. But where's Volume Three? Labels: installation_art, music, music_commentary

Wednesday, January 09, 2002 4:39 PM   Comments: Post a Comment