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The project consists of an audio score played in a 13 channel stereo audio installation with a slab-like bench positioned in the center of the speaker array.
The project is based around Erik Satie’s seminal work Gymnopedie No 1. I have collected and compiled every commercially available version of this short piano piece, each one performed by a different player, and each one having it’s own idiosyncratic personality (timing, background noise, performers interpretation).
I have taken each of these performances and I have overlaid them on top of one another in a multi track audio environment. Additionally I have taken each version and I have stretched out the timing of each track to the total length of a commercially available compact disc (approx 72 minutes). The pitch and tone of this stretching stays the same, only the timing gets slowed down.
What this creates is a slow sonorous ambient environment with roots to the original, but they’ve been smeared out into an impressionistic whole. An underwater-like slow cacophony that is both beautiful and engaging, while becoming something new entirely.
The work is the cumulinative “end-point” for Satie’s original piece, widely considered to be the earliest precursor to modern “ambient” music. Lauded by visionaries like John Cage and used in countless film soundtracks, it is a part of the history of 20th Century Modernism and also a part of our collective unconscious. I take this single work, which has no “original” recording (only interpretations) and transform it into an ultimate ambient environment.
The project is based around Erik Satie’s seminal work Gymnopedie No 1. I have collected and compiled every commercially available version of this short piano piece, each one performed by a different player, and each one having it’s own idiosyncratic personality (timing, background noise, performers interpretation).
I have taken each of these performances and I have overlaid them on top of one another in a multi track audio environment. Additionally I have taken each version and I have stretched out the timing of each track to the total length of a commercially available compact disc (approx 72 minutes). The pitch and tone of this stretching stays the same, only the timing gets slowed down.
What this creates is a slow sonorous ambient environment with roots to the original, but they’ve been smeared out into an impressionistic whole. An underwater-like slow cacophony that is both beautiful and engaging, while becoming something new entirely.
The work is the cumulinative “end-point” for Satie’s original piece, widely considered to be the earliest precursor to modern “ambient” music. Lauded by visionaries like John Cage and used in countless film soundtracks, it is a part of the history of 20th Century Modernism and also a part of our collective unconscious. I take this single work, which has no “original” recording (only interpretations) and transform it into an ultimate ambient environment.