I'm told this is Carlo Guistini's first release "under his own name" but I can't really find out what he's done under any other names because his is shared with an Italian actor soooo...wherever this came from, it's quite interesting. Giustini apparently rented a house built in 1966, set up two microphones and two dictaphones in each room and then recorded the house's natural frequencies, resonance, vibrations, as well as Giustini's own movements within the house. The description quite plainly states "no musical instruments have been used for this release". So Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting in a Room" is a natural point of reference. There are 4 tracks, one for each room I guess, and the result is ambient in the true sense of the word - the sound of a house simply existing, and of a person's movements within those walls. It's decidedly atmospheric, sometimes even moody. Hauntology would not be a misguided term to throw around here, although the pieces are strangely comforting too. Good one.
I'm told this is Carlo Guistini's first release "under his own name" but I can't really find out what he's done under any other names because his is shared with an Italian actor soooo...wherever this came from, it's quite interesting. Giustini apparently rented a house built in 1966, set up two microphones and two dictaphones in each room and then recorded the house's natural frequencies, resonance, vibrations, as well as Giustini's own movements within the house. The description quite plainly states "no musical instruments have been used for this release". So Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting in a Room" is a natural point of reference. There are 4 tracks, one for each room I guess, and the result is ambient in the true sense of the word - the sound of a house simply existing, and of a person's movements within those walls. It's decidedly atmospheric, sometimes even moody. Hauntology would not be a misguided term to throw around here, although the pieces are strangely comforting too. Good one.
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