Archive (Mike Hallenbeck)

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Floating Holiday on Ice

Album: Music Box Hero

Released: Jun 4, 2008

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Floating Holiday on Ice
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Red
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Tactile 01 Paper
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Genre: Acousmatic / Tape music / Experimental / Other
Location Minnesota, Minnesota, US
Profile Views: 10774
Last Login: 8/28/2009
Member Since 11/30/2006
Website http://www.juniorbirdman.com/archive
Record Label Insides Music, Stasisfield, Wandering Ear,Addendum
Type of Label Indie
Bio
.. .. ..Just Before Diwali: Field Recordings from North India.. .. India is a wondrous cacophony of cultures, faiths, languages, politics, and -- not surpisingly -- sounds. I recently had the chance to find this out for myself. A marriage gave me new relatives in the north of India, so I had the chance to meet my new family and travel a bit, recording gear in tow... The most common sounds I encountered in India were bells of all kinds. Another frequent sound, curiously, was the sound of firecrackers... many people set off fireworks to celebrate the approach of Diwali, a religious festival celebrated by people of many faiths in India and an occasion of roughly the same prominence as Christmas in the West. Diwali approached during my Indian travels; this accounts for the frequent booms and cracks of fireworks you'll hear resonating throughout these recordings. .. ..Download.. Just Before Diwali: Field Reordings from North India .. - - - - - - .. Archive is sound artist Mike Hallenbeck's "musique plastique" project. Source material for the music includes field recordings and other found audio (from music boxes and cell phones to the voices of humans and other animals). The process of composition is something like shattering a piece of glass, choosing the most interesting shards, and reassembling them in a manner that allows one to see the original shape in a new way. .. This music foregrounds the margins and thresholds of sound, the incidental and parenthetical, the transition between sounds or between sound and so-called silence-- moments where assumed boundaries blur and dissolve, where the constancy of mutability is revealed. .. For more info on this music, plus mp3 releases, performances, installations, and... what have you, drop by the ..home page... .. ..Mike Hallenbeck.. adopts sounds both hither and yon, brings them home to play with each other, and helps them decide what to be when they grow up. He works in composed and improvised music, installation, and sound design for theater, film, and dance. Sound and video installations featuring Hallenbeck's original and commissioned audio work have appeared in Spain, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and across the United States. Hallenbeck is also co-curator of the ..Wandering Ear.. net label.
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Pierre Schaeffer, Alvin Lucier, Eric LaCasa, rain, wind, thunder, footsteps, cicadas, cat purr, jingling keys, church bells, music boxes, wind chimes
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