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RUCHALSKI, EDWARD - Territorial Objects

Format: CD-R Label & Cat.Number: AFE Records afe089lcd Release Year: 2007 Note: oversized full-colour / fold-out cardboard cover / lim. 100 copies Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info Das Mailänder Label AFE RECORDS mausert sich zum Spezialisten-verlag für "advanced" field recordings, d.h. experimentell kreierte Soundscapes in denen Feldaufnahmen eine Hauptrolle spielen, die jedoch noch nachträglich bearbeitet oder mit anderen Soundquellen vermengt werden. EDWARD RUCHALSKI ist für uns auch noch ein recht unbeschriebenes Blatt, beim Durchhören seiner "Territorial Objects" fiel uns die Unmengen von verschiedenen Klangquellen auf, v.a. dynamische Becken- & Metall-Drones, "Gedengel" mit Glocken, äusserst attraktives Gerumpel & Trötenflächen, Pitchveränderungen führen zu Timbre-Wechseln... insgesamt sehr atmosphärisch & droney, super! "Edward Ruchalski is an american composer currently living in Syracuse, New York, where he teaches guitar. He has been commissioned by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Helen Boatwright and Syracuse's Society for New Music. Ruchalski has also been the recipient of two Individual Artists Grants from the Cultural Resources Council in Syracuse for his compositions Private Harmonies, a series written for motorized string and percussion instruments, and Kafka Resolution, written for speaker and percussion. For the last ten years he has been creating sound installations, motorized string and percussion instruments and playable percussive sculptures. His music has been released worldwide on labels such as Humbug, Pseudoarcana, Foxy Digitalis and Taâlem; he also contributed to many compilations. We had the chance to listen to Ruchalski's music for the first time when his "Refined Localities Part One" MiniCD-R 3" was released by Taâlem in France a few years ago. We instantly fill in love with his beautiful experiments and approached him. Edward proposed us a new work and the reissue of one of his older and out of print albums. We didn't have any doubt at all and steadily decided to release both of them on Afe... (please also have a look at afe090lcd). "Territorial Objects" is his latest full-lenght work, a collection of thirteen untitled short pieces recorded during 2005-2006 with the help of Michael Burton and Matt Broad. According to Edward's own words, "primary source materials used on the album include Michael Burton standing in Butternut Creek, playing cymbals, bells and artillery casings, sometimes using the water to vary the pitch of a cymbal or casing. Also, the two of us improvising on various drums and cymbals at Michael's house. Secondary source materials consist of Matt Broad playing long single notes on his tin whistle. Additional source materials include field recordings, bells, guitar, toy piano, various old recordings of motor instruments and samples from two old keyboard compositions. Source materials were transferred from minidisc to computer in order to create a library of sounds. Multiple copies of each sound were made so that variations could be created by envelope manipulation, filtering and pitch altering." "Territorial Objects" is a complex and powerful work focusing more on the percussive and mechanical side of Ruchalski's music rather than on the droning elements. The artwork for this release features original pictures taken by Paolo Ippoliti of Logoplasm." [label description] www.aferecords.com