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LABELLE, BRANDON — Site Specific Sound
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Wie jede unbedeutende Schlammlawine oder sterbende Hefezelle so rauscht auch jeder Raum im eigenen Format, in eigener Zeit und sowieso immer anders. Kaum ein anderer wei darber so dezidiert Auskunft zu geben, wie LaBelle, selbst seit unzhligen Jahren Musiker und Soundinstallateur. Seine Essays ber die Abstrakta Building, Music, Walls, Sound Installations etc. sind uerst schlig verfat und machen auf genau das aufmerksam, was im Sog des (natrlich immer extrem vereinfachenden) Beats oder der Popmusik immer wieder verschluckt wird. Hier zhlt einzig der pure Sound, das unvorhersehbare Ergebnis im Wechselspiel der Schallwellen mit seinem Publikum, seinen Begrenzungen und natrlich seiner zu kurzen Halbwertzeit. Vervollstndigt werden alle Theorien und Kommentare mit einer beraus hilfreichen Audio-CD, die Aufnahmen von verschiedenen Soundinstallationen LaBelles zusammenfat und somit gekonnt alles Ausgefhrte in verfhrerische Soundbeispiele transformiert. Sehr schn und aehm.. fast sexy. [Erik Benndorf / DeBug]
Site Specific Sound documents a series of sound installations from 1998 to 2002 by sound-artist and writer Brandon LaBelle. Each installation was created as part of the Beyond Music Sound Festival in Los Angeles, an annual festival on sound practice at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center. Functioning site-specifically, and drawing upon the architectural structure of the building, the installations explore the relationship between sound and space by staging social and spatial interventions. In documenting these five installations over the course of five years Site Specific Sound pries open architecture, and the specifics of locality, as a contingent form whose relationship to sound extends well beyond acoustical phenomena. It suggests ways to understand the fabrication of space through sound as a central lens, and architecture as a strategy for the construction of sound events. Including writings by LaBelle, an interview by the Frankfurt-based media-artist Achim Wollscheid, and a Compact Disc of audio work. [publishing house info]
Site Specific Sound documents a series of sound installations from 1998 to 2002 by sound-artist and writer Brandon LaBelle. Each installation was created as part of the Beyond Music Sound Festival in Los Angeles, an annual festival on sound practice at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center. Functioning site-specifically, and drawing upon the architectural structure of the building, the installations explore the relationship between sound and space by staging social and spatial interventions. In documenting these five installations over the course of five years Site Specific Sound pries open architecture, and the specifics of locality, as a contingent form whose relationship to sound extends well beyond acoustical phenomena. It suggests ways to understand the fabrication of space through sound as a central lens, and architecture as a strategy for the construction of sound events. Including writings by LaBelle, an interview by the Frankfurt-based media-artist Achim Wollscheid, and a Compact Disc of audio work. [publishing house info]