1 Public Transport — Musique Anecdotique In Memoriam Luc Ferrari 17:03
2 6'39'' über Halberstadt (Bonus) 6:39
The French composer Luc Ferrari, a major explorer of the experimental borderland of musique concrète, instrumental music and hoerspiel and a true pioneer in the aesthetics of field recording, died in September 2005. In homage to Ferrari, this piece refers to his practice of “Musique anecdotique”: everyday sounds recorded within a given period of time are examined in order to realise their musical potential, while the chance encounter of fragments of dialogue might start narratives in the listener’s imagination without ever spelling them out.
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On Gerald Fiebig’s “Public Transport”, long sold out by the time you are reading this, field recordings with a high degree of speech have been left almost entirely untouched, with layering and repetition creating rhythmical repetitions, metaphorical abstractions and an increasing degree of estrangement. Fiebig’s perspective is fascinating, because it suggests that it is not so much timbre or knowledge about a sound’s origins which awards it a familiar feeling, but rather its intonation, the “way that things are expressed”.
This realisation goes a long way in explaining why these passages, filled to the brim with everyday sounds, appear so utterly alien. In the long run, however, “Public Transport” offers an appeasing appendix to its initial observation: Our sensory system can adapt to the most surreal environments and safely find its way through foreign spaces if only awarded sufficient time. Rest assured: You don’t arrive at this kind of confidence-building conclusion just by taking a hike or opening the window.
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