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VITIELLO, STEPHEN - Bright and Dusty Things

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: New Albion Records NA 115 Release Year: 2001 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Wie klingt LICHT? Der New Yorker Klangkünstler STEPHEN VITIELLO benutzt Photozellen und setzt deren Signale mit Hilfe eines Computers in Sound um.. entstanden sind atmosphärische, aber unruhige Kompositionen, wo sich ständiges Summen & Vibrieren mit allerlei anderen Klängen vermischt, z.B. Gitarrensounds, Akkordeon (von PAULINE OLIVEROS eingespielt), bizarr und schön ! “ with Pauline Oliveros, David Tronzo, Danny Tunick, Rebecca Moore and Lydia Forbes. Light becomes sight becomes sound becomes music. New York based installationist and sound artist Stephen Vitiello steps out as a composer in his own right after years of collaborations with artists, musicians and choreographers including Nam June Paik, Scanner, Pauline Oliveros, Tony Oursler and Constance De Jong, Joan Jeanrenaud, Frances-Marie Uitti and many others. During his 'WorldViews' residency at the World Trade Center in 1999 (the first media artist to be invited by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Thunder Gulch), Vitiello was inspired by nightviews of the cityscape - billboards, harbor lights, police cars - to translate/amplify the visual into a sonic experience. Collaborating with noted sound technician Bob Bielecki, Vitiello developed the photocell for guitar, which translates the vibration (color, speed) of lights in tones. Having thus captured the genie, Vitiello's sounds were further processed both in computer and in live musical collaboration with avant/improv friends. The result is a flowing, gorgeous set of sound/song pieces constantly alternating between noise and tone, between lyricism and disturbance. At times this recalls the drones of soundfield pioneers, the handmade imperfect loose wired contraptions of Fluxus artist, and the microcosmos glitchwerk explorations of younger European and Japanese artists” [label description]