{"product_id":"max-eilbacher-lucy-railton-indifferent","title":"Max Eilbacher \u0026 Lucy Railton - Indifferent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded in Berlin, September and October 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePremiered October 27th, 2022 at the Friedman Gallery as part of the Distant Pairs curated by Issue Project Room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally presented as a quadraphonic fixed media piece.\u003cbr\u003eDesigned by Philip Marshall. Covert artwork by Owen Schuh.\u003cbr\u003eIndifferent Rocks Are Rearranged into a Dam takes various - and\u003cbr\u003esometimes competing - understandings of “Interval”, “isolation” and\u003cbr\u003e“distance” as its point of conceptual and compositional departure.\u003cbr\u003eTaking its title from a line in Elaine Scarry’s book The Body in Pain,\u003cbr\u003eIndifferent Rocks… explores different forms of detachment and\u003cbr\u003eabstraction present both in the piece’s making, as well as the\u003cbr\u003epost-pandemic cultural environment in which it was composed. We were\u003cbr\u003einterested in the perceptual limit of comprehending distances both\u003cbr\u003esocial and musical: between speakers in a room; between partials;\u003cbr\u003ebetween attacks and isolated electronic tones; between virtuosity and\u003cbr\u003efixed media; between performance separated by an ocean to its\u003cbr\u003eplayback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tonal breadth of Lucy’s cello spectra was analyzed and digitally\u003cbr\u003eresynthesized as a collection of partials. For the initial analysis\u003cbr\u003eprocess, cello passages of quick fluctuating pitch were chosen. We\u003cbr\u003ewanted to break down and approach the sonorous materiality of the\u003cbr\u003ecello as a non-musical object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy breaking down the cello into indifferent materials -only to then\u003cbr\u003erearrange and mimic its musical gestures, we wanted to see how meaning\u003cbr\u003ecan be divested and then reimbued, with an ear to questioning that\u003cbr\u003eprecise process of “reconstruction” of meaning: just as rocks are\u003cbr\u003eindifferent to containing and holding water “for us” until they have\u003cbr\u003ebeen placed into the configuration of a dam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy focusing on the minutiae of the sound - “zooming in” - the spectral\u003cbr\u003egaze renders the cello as raw inharmonic material. From these\u003cbr\u003ecollected pitch sets, the distance between each frequency was\u003cbr\u003ecalculated to construct a harmonic system by which sound was\u003cbr\u003esynthesized. At that point, what form could be given to arrange these\u003cbr\u003estatic tones, to give them life: does that life require\u003cbr\u003ere-approximating the sound of its source, a kind of mimicry of cello\u003cbr\u003eas an “authentic” source, or is there another kind of life that can be\u003cbr\u003ewrenched from these soundings? In oscillating between these two poles\u003cbr\u003ewe hoped to reframe the listeners’ relationship with a pitched\u003cbr\u003einstrument. We wanted to tease the boundaries through which the cello\u003cbr\u003ebecomes experienced. The simplified synthetic tones, intervallically\u003cbr\u003earranged against Lucy’s cello parts are the means by which the\u003cbr\u003edistance between cello, synthesis, and sonic meaning are ascribed\u003cbr\u003esignificance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince we were already preoccupied with the uncanny distances between\u003cbr\u003esource and output, original and resynthesized mimic - the reductions\u003cbr\u003eand slips required in bridging that distance - we felt it suitable to\u003cbr\u003edocument the multi-channel piece via a simple recording of the\u003cbr\u003eabstracted aural gaze of others. Four speakers become two ears, a\u003cbr\u003emulti-channel field is reduced to stereo and multiple perceiving\u003cbr\u003ebodies in the Fridman Gallery are now simply the backs of heads,\u003cbr\u003ewatched by two eyes on a screen.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"boomkat","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64679679918457,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0051\/1380\/6921\/files\/MaxEilbacher_LucyRailton-Indifferent.jpg?v=1790084297","url":"https:\/\/worldofechomusic.com\/products\/max-eilbacher-lucy-railton-indifferent","provider":"World Of Echo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}