PIETRO RIPARBELLI - SORTIE
A new release by Pietro Riparbelli. Italian philosopher, composer and sound-multimedia artist. Well known for his project K11 and as executive producer for the fantastic "Metasound" series on the Radical Matters - Editions Label.
SORTIE - arises from a conceptual idea based on the dichotomy between the emergency exits which are situated everywhere in the small city of Nanterre (Paris) and the motorway that is running below, into a sonic soundscape evolved out of sources from field recordings and radio signals.
SORTIE
C34 chrome cassette
limited to 80
10 copies in special oversize packaging
6 EUR
Frome Vital weekly:
More musical, I guess, is the release by Pietro Riparbelli, whom we also know as K11. His cassette is a bit longer, thirty four minutes, and on the website we read: "SORTIE - arises from a conceptual idea based on the dichotomy between the emergency exits which are situated everywhere in the small city of Nanterre (Paris) and the motorway that is running below, into a sonic soundscape evolved out of sources from field recordings and radio signals." I am not sure what the difference is between K11 and Riparbelli working under his own name. It seems to be starting out with some pure field recordings, church bells in a small square and when that ends - rather quickly - it moves over into an extended piece of heavily processed field recordings. Think those sort of empty space recording being heavily processed into a glacial like drone scape, gradually becoming more and more silent and disappearing. Very occasionally you may hear a bit of the original sounds, the street sounds, certainly towards the end of side B, like a circle being completed. Church goes into abstraction goes into street sounds. Excellent work, very mysterious and quite powerful. (FdW)
http://geraeuschmanufaktur.bandcamp.com/album/sortieinfo@geraeuschmanufaktur.de
