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ROSSETTO, VANESSA - The way you make me feel

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Unfathomless U35 Release Year: 2016 Note: how special "pure field recordings" can be proves this release by VANESSA ROSSETTO (painter & composer from USA, known from LPs on Kye for example), who recorded lots of material during a stay in New York City, which was later assorted and arranged...=> a strange mixture of personal, normally unnoticed 'everyday life' recordings with amorph clouds of hissing and atmospheric noises... lim. 200, numbered, full colour cardboard cover & artcard Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.00 More Info In fall 2014, I spent some time in New York City in preparation for a performance. During this time, I recorded as close to continually as I could given normal human and mechanical shortcomings – an SD card runs out of room, a battery dies, a person wakes too groggy to check the recorder or, in a flurry of activity, leaves it dormant. After a time, you start to forget the device is even there which is of course the purpose but also interacts in its own way with the frailties of human memory – if you forget it’s there you forget to check to make sure it’s functioning properly. Despite all that, at the end of the allotted time I was left with a large volume of recorded material that took me longer than I’d have liked to comb through, sort, assess and determine a structural framework around which I could wind bits of this straw into something resembling a form. In all this record of whirlwind events, I found myself most drawn to the moments at rest, in between overt actions and dialogue, and it was out of these that I constructed the majority of these pieces. It so happened that during the time of recording I was already collapsing into an unprecedentedly long, deep and unbroken depressive state. As so often can happen, the document I had planned to make and set out to make is not the one I ended up making. It couldn’t be. I believe that is reflected in the decision to form these pieces out of the absences and interstices – the pauses, misfirings, missing pieces, long sleeps and synaptic gaps and, of course, the way they make me feel. (Vanessa Rossetto, April 2016)