Gregory BÜTTNER
“Voll.Halb.Langsam.Halt”
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From Gregory Büttner, “Voll.Halb.Langsam.Halt” is based on contact mic recordings, which I recorded on an old steamboat, an ice-breaker from the 1930. I had the chance to take a trip on the ship from Rostock to Rügen over the Baltic Sea in 2010. The body of the ship is completely built from metal, so it is a big resonant room which sounds very different on each spot which I put my contact mics on (I used two contact mics, so I could record in stereo). I walked around the ship, placing my mics on different areas of the ship and also directly on parts of the steam engine, which is still fired by coal. For the composition I only used the pure recordings without additional sound manipulations, only juxtapositions, transitions and cuts.
300 copies.
Comme souvent chez le label Gruenrekorder, on est aux frontières du paysage, de l’art sonore, ou de l’auscultation d’un phénomène précis. Ici le compositeur Gregory Büttner scrute avec ses micro contacts toutes les particularités sonores d’un vieux brise-glace sur lequel il a pu embarquer en mer baltique. Tout en métal (et au charbon !!!), ce bateau est extrêmement sonore. Gregory Büttner nous en donne un aperçu dans une composition qui garde le côté brut de la prise de sons originale.
Une auscultation des plus réussie !
300 copies.
