The Body Imitates The Landscape
Label | Unsounds – 64U |
Format | CD, Album, Stereo |
Barcode | 5902249002140 |
Country | Netherlands |
Released | 2019 |
Genre | Electronic, Classical |
Style | Electroacoustic, Experimental, Modern Classical, Contemporary |
The music on this album originates in the interactive sound installation The Body Imitates the Landscape by artist Adi Hollander: she designed a collection of ergonomic objects that are meant to transform music into vibrations felt through the entire body. Hollander was inspired by the Japanese book Karada by Michitaro Tada about the school of the body. Hollander and Claudio F. Baroni made a live version of the installation where Baronis music, performed by Maze, was experienced live by the public. As it was channeled through the objects, the public could at once hear the music in the space and feel it in their bodies.This album features 11 pieces, each, as in the book Karada, dedicated to a part of the body. Baroni has written those 11 pieces for the Ensemble Maze around recorded whispered voices. This is Baronis third collaboration with Unsounds. It comes with liner notes by Reinaldo Laddaga (a important guest on Unsounds with Things That A Mutant Needs To Know and The Men From Russia).
1 | Atama (the Head) A Cat Body Resembles Nothing So Much As A Pillow | 5:03 |
2 | Kao (the Face) The Face Has A Near Monopoly Of Sensation | 4:51 |
3 | Kata (the Shoulder) The Future Will Surely Belong To The Tactile | 5:01 |
4 | Senaka (the Back) The Back Is Visible To Our Eyes | 4:19 |
5 | Hara (the Belly) The Moon And The Belly United | 3:36 |
6 | Heso (the Navel) Navel Is Memory, Remembrance | 4:02 |
7 | Uesuto (the Waist) The Body Imitates The Landscape | 4:00 |
8 | Hippu (the Hip) Sun, Water And Air | 3:47 |
9 | Koshi (the Pelvis) Priest And Devil | 5:45 |
10 | Oshiri (the Butt) Power Is Expressed By Accretion | 5:03 |
11 | Ashi (legs & Feet) Two Lovers Walk Burabura, Shoulder To Shoulder | 4:31 |
Bass Clarinet – Gareth Davis
Composed By, Electronics – Claudio F. Baroni
Design – Isabelle Vigier
Double Bass – Dario Calderone
Electric Guitar – Wiek Hijmans
Keyboards – Reinier Van Houdt
Liner Notes – Reinaldo Laddaga
Percussion – Enric Monfort
Performer – Maze
Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By – Micha De Kanter
In memory of Robert Ashley (1930-2014)
For more information and for the libretto:
http://thebody.aholl-studio.org/unsounds.com/the-body