Simon Whetham continues his plan to draw attention to minimal, imperceptible, and overlooked sounds. He’s in the middle of an ongoing kinetic sound performance thing called “Channelling”, of which the CD Successive Actions (CRÓNICA 225) is a part. On it, he repurposes the motors from discarded or broken household objects, and somehow re-activates them by playing sound recordings through …
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Successive Actions takes in sixteen tracks built around recordings of motorised devices, sourced from obsolete consumer technology. Track lengths vary between one and eleven minutes, with the recordings moving between textural studies, erratic blending of several different elements, and all-out/ intense sound crafting.The CD album comes presented in a dark blue card gatefold featuring what looks …
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Simon Whetham’s “Successive Actions” is not so much an album as it is a murmuring labyrinth of discarded whispers, a requiem for obsolete machines played on their own brittle bones. In this latest iteration of his “Channelling” project, Whetham transforms the detritus of consumer technology – motors, mechanisms, and malfunctions – into an orchestra of …
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Crónica bringen eine neue CD des britischen “Environmental Sound Artist” Simon Whetham heraus. “Successive Actions” ist eine Wiederholung einer größeren kinetischen Soundperformance-Projektreihe, in der laut Label “verschiedene aus veralteter und weggeworfener Verbrauchertechnologie geborgene Motorgeräte durch das Abspielen von Tonaufnahmen aktiviert werden. Dadurch entstehen wiederum neue Klänge aus den Geräten, die mit verschiedenen Mikrofonen und Techniken …
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Simon Whetham’s latest work is a fascinating hybrid which incorporates found sounds and elements of layering in order to create a whole other world, a different dimension. The album itself is part of a larger project, which is more readily explained through quotation than a stumbling stab at paraphrase: Successive Actions is an iteration of …
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Successive Actions to iteracja szerszej serii kinetycznych performansów dźwiękowych, w których różne urządzenia silnikowe, odzyskane z przestarzałych i wyrzuconych technologii konsumenckich, są aktywowane za pomocą odtwarzanych przez nie nagrań dźwiękowych. To z kolei generuje nowe dźwięki z urządzeń, które są wzmacniane za pomocą różnych mikrofonów i technik. Tytuł pochodzi z książki Dirka Raaijmakersa The Art of Reading …
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Successive Actions is an iteration of the larger kinetic sound performance project series Channelling in which various motor devices, salvaged from obsolete and discarded consumer technology, are activated by playing sound recordings through them. In turn, this produces new sounds from the devices, which are amplified using various microphones and techniques.The title comes from Dirk Raaijmakers’s The …
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Music by Simon Whetham we reviewed quite a bit. ‘Successive Actions’ is already his fifth release for Cronica and another apparition of his “kinetic sound performance project series ‘Channelling’ in which various motor devices, salvaged from obsolete and discarded consumer technology, are activated by playing sound recordings through them. This produces new sounds from the …
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It’s an exciting time, we’re only a month into 2019 and I’ve already received quite a lot of great releases that I’ve reviewed recently. Now it’s also time to introduce new series on this blog as well as continue with the first 2019 selection of music on Fluid Sonic Fluctuations (with my updated semi-random selection …
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