(Catalogue no. 13071)
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| Title: |
Weather Report |
| Artist: |
Janek Schaefer |
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Label: |
Alluvial |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
€ 13.00 |
Mp3 samples: 1
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Title Description:
Weather Report was created during my trips to Minnesota as a McKnight Composer in
Residence with the American Composers Forum. I lived in Uptown Minneapolis in a wonderful wooden house surrounded by trees and lakes during December 2002 and June 2003. The catalyst for the project was the Minnesotan love for their diverse and often hostile weather.......which proved to be an exhilarating experience!
My initial ideas were to create and collect new sounds that were related to the concept of
weather in the broadest sense, to document and research weather in the media, and to float recording equipment up on weather balloons in various ways. These processes were integral as my focus was on sound associated with the weather, in preference to pristine recordings of the weather first hand. An obvious exception, in my last week, was the storm of 40 tornado warnings that touched down around the fringes of the city.
Vital Review:
Our most beloved three arm turntablist Janek Schaefer is besides also a
composer. He was invited by the American Composers Forum as a composer in
residence. While staying in Minneapolis he decided upon doing a project with
sound recordings made from the hostile weather conditions in that particular
state. The sounds were recorded using weather balloons, adding also
recording equipment to them, which included a mobile telephone. Furthermore
he uses tornado detecting equipment, snow flakes landing on a microphone and
radio and tv announcements of weather changes. All of this is cut and
collaged together in this twenty one minute work, and Schaefer hastens to
say that no post-processing of sounds was used here. The result is simply a
fascinating journey of weather sounds. Sounds that we are all familiar with,
as weather is always there, and no doubt many people are fascinated by it's
sound: rain, thunder, wind - it's usually the conditions we don't like that
produce the sound, strangely enough. Therefore a lot of the sounds you hear
on this piece are very familiar sounds - but placed out of context, or
rather in a new context, it becomes a fascinating piece of music. Plus the
package holds an extensive full colour booklet, which documents the project.
This project is by far the best Schaefer project I have encountered. Strong
in it's concept and strong in its execution. (FdW)
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