May 6, 2001 (and/OAR, 2006)

1 Steinbrüchel - Bank 15:41
2 Aaron Ximm - Negative Architectures 5:23
3 Kenneth Kirschner - May 6, 2001 (Abridged) 14:20
4 Tomas Korber - Financial District 22:04
5 Taylor Deupree - Dust 4:15

On the night of Sunday, May 6, 2001, composer Kenneth Kirschner, as part of a series of pieces documenting the sounds of different New York City neighborhoods, took his tape recorder to the Financial District of Lower Manhattan to begin field recordings for a new piece. The resulting
low-resolution portrait captured the sounds of a deserted urban landscape: the empty, winding streets of old Dutch New Amsterdam, its modern, towering skyscrapers -- and a region of the city that, several months later, would be renamed Ground Zero.

and/OAR is proud to present "May 6, 2001", a collection of five interpretations by five renowned contemporary composers of the aforementioned field recording portrait.

With excerpts from Kirschner's original 2001 composition based on the field recording, the CD also includes pieces by Taylor Deupree (USA), Tomas Korber (Switzerland), Ralph Steinbrüchel (Switzerland), and Aaron Ximm (aka Quiet American; USA), all utilizing the 2001 Financial District field recording as their sole source material. The result is a project that obliquely and subtly evokes the source recording and its subsequent meanings, while also standing on its
own as an estimable example of each artist's mastery of his craft.

In conjunction with the release of the CD, and/OAR is pleased to present two MP3s of related recordings. The first is the raw field recording itself, which is the source material for the entire project. This 46-minute, low-resolution soundscape of the New York City of early 2001 is presented here both for interested listeners, and for fellow artists who may wish to make use of it: http://www.kennethkirschner.com/field050601.mp3

In addition, here is the unedited, 36-minute version of Kirschner's composition based on the field recording is available here: http://www.kennethkirschner.com/kirschner050601.mp3
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