{"id":11425,"date":"2024-05-21T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11425"},"modified":"2024-05-09T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T13:58:16","slug":"new-release-marc-behrenss-aiear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11425","title":{"rendered":"New release: Marc Behrens\u2019s \u201cAiear\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/218\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cronica218-2024_1440-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11426\" width=\"520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cronica218-2024_1440-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cronica218-2024_1440-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cronica218-2024_1440-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cronica218-2024_1440-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cronica218-2024_1440.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Airplane noise interrupted my early outdoor sound recording attempts in the forests around Frankfurt. And so, after a while, I figured I would kick the pastoral, turn the concept upside down, and specifically record the airplane noise instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aiear\u00a0was planned as a field recording project since 1996. In 2023 I resumed the project and composed the piece as a preamble to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/220\/\"><em>Clould<\/em>\u00a0cycle<\/a>.\u00a0<em>Aiear<\/em>\u00a0and the five movements of\u00a0<em>Clould<\/em>\u00a0together consist of 95 minutes of electroacoustic music, five microstories, the libretto for its fifth movement, a number of aerial photographs and text charts, and a performance concept including the first three movements. The title\u00a0<em>Clould<\/em>\u00a0convolutes the words \u201ccloud\u201d, hinting at humankind\u2019s fascination of supposed supernatural cloud beings, and \u201ccould\u201d, a potentiality. Historical mythologies about supernatural beings that supposedly lived in clouds or created them are placed in the context of 21st century airborne mass transport. Such air travel propels large groups of human beings \u2014 passive by force \u2014 through a space that once belonged to mythological beings and energies. And to the clouds, of course. The title\u00a0<em>Aiear<\/em>\u00a0is a convolution of the words \u201cair\u201d and \u201cear\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I composed\u00a0<em>Clould<\/em>\u00a0with sounds from inside airports and airplanes in flight, including disembodied voice announcements,\u00a0<em>Aiear<\/em>\u00a0is based on the sounds of airplanes just taken off or descending in order to touch down, recorded from the ground. In those phases the jet turbines produce various glissandi, unnerving when looking for quietness, but interesting when carved from the full recorded sound spectrum and used as elements for the composition \u2014 dismechanized engine noises, complementary to disembodied voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/218\/\">Aiear<\/a><\/em> is now available as a download or stream. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/220\/\">Clould<\/a><\/em> is available as a pre-order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airplane noise interrupted my early outdoor sound recording attempts in the forests around Frankfurt. And so, after a while, I figured I would kick the pastoral, turn the concept upside down, and specifically record the airplane noise instead. Aiear\u00a0was planned as a field recording project since 1996. In 2023 I resumed the project and composed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11425\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New release: Marc Behrens\u2019s \u201cAiear\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-11425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","tag-marc-behrens","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11427,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions\/11427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}