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”Practices of Everyday Life | Cooking” is a -/+50 minuet long Comprovisational(1) concert that focuses foremost on poetic gesture-sound correlations and sonic Gesture Bending(2). It is a compositional exploration of the interplay between the senses, poetics of enchantment and materiality, and the ethico-aesthetics of everyday practices.
While the original performance flows as one continuous event, unique sections emerge from culinary tasks and form poetic vignettes and textural etudes. Eleven vignettes have been selected, cut into individual tracks, and included here. Each track is a unique gestural sound composition and each composition undertakes a phenomenological reconsideration of basic notions such as score, instrument, performer, and the musical event. Throughout the concert a multitude of musical genres and compositional paradigms are visited and reinvented with cutting edge gestural sound techniques. The piece retains an aesthetic nostalgia for and mashes many sonic realms such as ritualized sound art, music actuelle, dronscape, glitch, noise, microsound, vapourware and muzak, plunderphonics, music concrete, drum’n bass, av post cyberpunk, ... It is important to consider that all tracks are the result of a mixdown from the original 8.2 multichannel performance that was recorded live during the premiering concert on March 2nd 2015. During live concerts, some sound events are localizable to certain areas on the stage while other sounds immerse the audience. Also, at parts, the compositions rely heavily on infra sounds in the 10-35 Hz range using 2 specialized subwoofers. These frequency ranges were filtered out in the video and audio tracks for better portability. ____________________ |
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