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karu:40, CD (deluxe digipak)
1 audio track, (p) 2016
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Release date: 06/06/2016
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Approaching Relational Listening"Relational listening provides a systemic framework through which artists and other concerned practitioners can explore the conditions of their listening, specifically in the context of the desire to transmit those listenings", writes Lawrence English in an essay entitled Relational Listening: The Politics of Perception. He describes relational listening as a creative process intended to make one's listening audible to an audience.
In the case of "Approaching Nothing", English's concept of relational listening also puts the listener in relation with a founding work in the field of phonography (or field recording): Luc Ferrari's "Presque Rien n° 1" [Almost Nothing #1]. Ferrari recorded the material for this piece in 1967 in Vela Luka, Yugoslavia (now in Croatia), in the middle of summer. English takes us back to that town in 2013 just as fall creeps in, picking up (to an extent) where Ferrari had left us and, like Ferrari, English limits his post-recording interventions to editing and juxtapositions.
And thus "Approaching Nothing" both approaches Ferrari's idea and serves as a stellar relational listening case study. The 30-minute piece delivers many audio puzzles, twists, and surprises, with a pacing that makes it easy to relate to.
Lawrence English is a world-famous composer, electronician, sound installation artist, record producer, and record label manager living in Australia. His works often explore the nature of perception. He has released solo albums on highly valued imprints like Crónica, Important, Line, Sirr, Touch, 12k, and his own label ROOM40. "Approaching Nothing" is his third album on Baskaru.
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These are the most 'natural' kind of environmental recordings imaginable.
HEADPHONE COMMUTE, December 2016
Those familiar with Luc Ferrari's work will no doubt enjoy Lawrence English's torch-bearing.
EXCLAIM!, October 2016
Don't know the field recording genre? Start with this! Blessed!
DARK ENTRIES, October 2016
Everything slots into place to create a perfect whole.
ADVERSE EFFECT, September 2016
Lawrence English is faithful to Luc Ferrari's spirit, which would have endorsed Alain Robbe-Grillet's aspiration for his readers to participate in "the invention of the work - and the world".
THE WIRE, September 2016
Cela suffit à signer la qualité d'un artiste qui, même dans un genre ultra-balisé, parvient à se singulariser.
ETHERREAL, August 2016
From inside, leaking out, the scrape of metal on metal, the clinking of cups, the owner puttering affably like a motor, and a curious, crackling hiss.
TINY MIX TAPES, July 2016
Un album qui pose des questions, à chacun d'y trouver sa réponse.
SILENCE AND SOUND, June 2016
An excellent piece of music.
VITAL WEEKLY, June 2016
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