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| 1. | Ambient | 24:30 |
one-sided LP (music in only on side A)
one-sided LP (music in only on side A)
Robert Piotrowicz - analogue synthesizer, electronics
C. Spencer Yeh - violin, electronics
Recorded live april 9th 2011 at Littlefield, Brooklyn NYC by Philip White
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi and Robert Piotrowicz
Photos: Anna Zaradny
Robert Piotrowicz & C. Spencer Yeh "Ambient" recorded for Unsound Festival NY 2011 in collaboration with ISSUE Project Room
Ambient describes something that imperceptibly pervades the environment to the point of barely existing. It affects us, but we might not know it. It controls what we regard as the most basic qualities of our lives, so basic that we consider them inconsequential, everyday, and normal. The earliest ambient music was likened to furniture.
This is not ambient music. But there are the qualities of ambient music here. The sounds surround and envelop. Groundwork is laid for assumptions and choices to be made. C. Spencer Yeh claims he works with music, defining his practice as experimentation rather than craftsmanship; organization is the principle mode of engagement. Ambient music implies a treatment as opposed to a performance an intervention in space. Robert Piotrowicz works to dominate and reorder space through music. The listener experiences the music through the space: the physical image of music. Ambient implies a light structure - music as transient architecture.
These two ideas come together: architecture and intervention. They do not blend or melt together. There is little harmony. Harmony does not matter. What matters is organization and arrangement, placement and coexistence. Events alongside one another, sounds moving, pieces become distinct, moments fall into each other. We hear time describing space.
(–) Lawrence Kumpf
REVIEWS
A duet captured on April 9th 2011 in Brooklyn of analogue modular synthesizer and electronics (Piotrowicz) and violin and electronics (Yeh). I am not entirely sure why this is called 'Ambient', but perhaps there is some joke among musicians about this when they played it. 'Ha, let's play our ambient piece now'? I am not sure, but this doesn't seem to qualify as ambient music, I would say. The nervous hectic playing of both violin and the densely orchestrated but randomly organized modular synth bleeps doesn't put the listener in any sort of calm mood or the feeling of being relaxed. It's however also not the sort of music that is very noise-like. Improvised for sure, dense, with all of the sounds close together, but never loud, distorted or over the top. Depending of course how loud this was played, I guess, but on record it makes great sense. This is an one-sided record, which is always a pity. Weren't there any extra pieces, or remixes of the original material? Somehow it always seems such a shame to do one-sided LPs, I think. But the side that has music also seems a bit longer. Mmm. What we have, however, is very nice.
(–) Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly
one-sided LP (music is only on side A)
Robert Piotrowicz - analogue synthesizer, electronics
C. Spencer Yeh - violin, electronics
Recorded live april 9th 2011 at Littlefield, Brooklyn NYC by Philip White
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi and Robert Piotrowicz
Photos: Anna Zaradny
Robert Piotrowicz & C. Spencer Yeh "Ambient" recorded for Unsound Festival NY 2011 in collaboration with ISSUE Project Room
Ambient describes something that imperceptibly pervades the environment to the point of barely existing. It affects us, but we might not know it. It controls what we regard as the most basic qualities of our lives, so basic that we consider them inconsequential, everyday, and normal. The earliest ambient music was likened to furniture.
This is not ambient music. But there are the qualities of ambient music here. The sounds surround and envelop. Groundwork is laid for assumptions and choices to be made. C. Spencer Yeh claims he works with music, defining his practice as experimentation rather than craftsmanship; organization is the principle mode of engagement. Ambient music implies a treatment as opposed to a performance an intervention in space. Robert Piotrowicz works to dominate and reorder space through music. The listener experiences the music through the space: the physical image of music. Ambient implies a light structure - music as transient architecture.
These two ideas come together: architecture and intervention. They do not blend or melt together. There is little harmony. Harmony does not matter. What matters is organization and arrangement, placement and coexistence. Events alongside one another, sounds moving, pieces become distinct, moments fall into each other. We hear time describing space.
(–) Lawrence Kumpf
REVIEWS
A duet captured on April 9th 2011 in Brooklyn of analogue modular synthesizer and electronics (Piotrowicz) and violin and electronics (Yeh). I am not entirely sure why this is called 'Ambient', but perhaps there is some joke among musicians about this when they played it. 'Ha, let's play our ambient piece now'? I am not sure, but this doesn't seem to qualify as ambient music, I would say. The nervous hectic playing of both violin and the densely orchestrated but randomly organized modular synth bleeps doesn't put the listener in any sort of calm mood or the feeling of being relaxed. It's however also not the sort of music that is very noise-like. Improvised for sure, dense, with all of the sounds close together, but never loud, distorted or over the top. Depending of course how loud this was played, I guess, but on record it makes great sense. This is an one-sided record, which is always a pity. Weren't there any extra pieces, or remixes of the original material? Somehow it always seems such a shame to do one-sided LPs, I think. But the side that has music also seems a bit longer. Mmm. What we have, however, is very nice.
(–) Frans De Waard, Vital Weekly