RODEN, STEVE — Airforms
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LUFTFORMEN? ÄTHERFORMEN? Ja, wie organische Skulpturen in grossen Räumen wirken RODENS akustische Installationen - wie in Form gegossener Klang. Dabei basieren die Sounds hier auf gepressten ATEM, inspiriert von den „airform constructions“, das sind Häuser die auf organischer Ballon-Struktur basieren. AIRFORMS ist ein one-tracker von 56 min. Länge bestehend aus kontemplativen drones in zeitlupenhafter Bewegung, leicht klingend und rasselnd. Die Sounds dienten als Installationsklänge zur Beschallung aus ähnlich geformten „Luft-Skeletten“, welche die Luft physisch im Raum präsent werden lässt... schönes Konzept und betörende Klänge !!
“Line is proud to present the latest full length recording from visual and sound artist Steve Roden. airforms was first presented at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [Scottsdale, Arizona] in April of 2004. The work was inspired by a group of experimental houses designed by Wallace Neff in the 1940s using a process he called airform construction. The houses were built by spraying concrete over an inflated balloon structure. Inspired by the nautilus sea shell, the houses were an investigation into the aesthetic possibilities of structures formed by air, and the psychological effects of living inside a kind of organic space. The installation attempted to reflect Neff's ideas in the use of air as an inspirational skeleton and physical presence in the construction of the forms as well as the audio. Five objects were built by laying plaster over small balloons. The sound work was created using the transformed sound of a breath blown through an old wooden organ pipe. Both essentially built from Roden's own breath. The original multi-channel audio work consisted of five small speakers, each placed within a single plaster form. The version for this CD has been re-organized for stereo listening. The lack of narrative structure attempts to create an audio space in line with Neff's architectural interests in the airform projects.” [label info]
“....As beautiful as it is modest, the Airforms CD ripples with a slow procession of of abstracted pipe organ loops periodically scratched with distant crackle.” [Aquarius Records]
“Line is proud to present the latest full length recording from visual and sound artist Steve Roden. airforms was first presented at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [Scottsdale, Arizona] in April of 2004. The work was inspired by a group of experimental houses designed by Wallace Neff in the 1940s using a process he called airform construction. The houses were built by spraying concrete over an inflated balloon structure. Inspired by the nautilus sea shell, the houses were an investigation into the aesthetic possibilities of structures formed by air, and the psychological effects of living inside a kind of organic space. The installation attempted to reflect Neff's ideas in the use of air as an inspirational skeleton and physical presence in the construction of the forms as well as the audio. Five objects were built by laying plaster over small balloons. The sound work was created using the transformed sound of a breath blown through an old wooden organ pipe. Both essentially built from Roden's own breath. The original multi-channel audio work consisted of five small speakers, each placed within a single plaster form. The version for this CD has been re-organized for stereo listening. The lack of narrative structure attempts to create an audio space in line with Neff's architectural interests in the airform projects.” [label info]
“....As beautiful as it is modest, the Airforms CD ripples with a slow procession of of abstracted pipe organ loops periodically scratched with distant crackle.” [Aquarius Records]