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WYNESS, JAMES - Objects wrapped in Objects wrapped in Objects

Format: mCDR Label & Cat.Number: Taalem alm105 Release Year: 2014 Note: two compositions by this interesting Scottish sound artist, inspired by architecture and materiality, using material / sounds of "opened and closed hearths" and a tin foil/speaker arrangament: this is pure & very concrete object "material" noise... Price (incl. 19% VAT): €5.00 More Info "james wyness is a rare scottish sound artist with only a handful of releases on various labels like gruenrekorder, conv or mystery sea. for "objects wrapped in objects wrapped in objects", james has gathered two delicate and precise compositions. "the hearth" was composed in response to the theme of sound and rural architecture following a three week residency in northern portugal with "binuaral/nodar" in april 2012 as part of the "festival som e arquitetura rural". the piece investigates the sounds of open and closed hearths recorded in the san macario region of northern portugal. it reveals the dense dynamic textures and sonic morphologies of one of the fundamentals of architecture. "foil" is an investigation of materiality and recursive procedures in which tin foil was set in a picture frame, played by hand and recorded using contact microphones. the recorded sounds were then played back through the foil using transducers, the foil was performed simultaneously and the results mixed live to tape. www.taalem.com "James Wyness has a great title of his release: it leaves stuff to imagine. He has two pieces, of exactly ten minutes each. In the first he uses 'metal wood burning stoves, open domestic fires and domestic utensils' and in the other 'tin foil, transducers and contact microphones'. I don't like long quotes, but the website says it better than I can do: "the hearth" investigates the sounds of open and closed hearths recorded in the san macario region of northern Portugal. It reveals the dense dynamic textures and sonic morphologies of one of the fundamentals of architecture. "Foil" is an investigation of materiality and recursive procedures in which tin foil was set in a picture frame, played by hand and recorded using contact microphones. The recorded sounds were then played back through the foil using transducers, the foil was performed simultaneously and the results mixed live to tape." In the first of these pieces we hear something of light crackling nature, the burning of something inside a small hollow, metallic space, whereas in the tin foil piece it becomes all a bit darker and even percussive, slowed down. The tin foil has great sonic qualities but here it sounds very much unlike that. Dark and obscured sounds, but with a fine imaginative headspace. Two excellent pieces and also perhaps something that sounds less like what you would expect on Taalem." [FdW/Vital Weekly]