Dr. Klangendum
ma 14 apr 2025 00:00 uur
#536 Breathing Rotations • Playlist; • 1. Richard Thomas – a phone call from the highlands (2025) • 2. Stephen Adams with The Music Box Project; Breathing Rotations in the Imaginary Radio Station (2025) • 3. Vril – Albino Hen Coop (2010) • 4. Samuel Vriezen – The weather riots. (2005) • MORE INFO • 1. A Phone Call From The Highlands – programme notes • A man visits the Scottish Highlands for a winter break. On his first night he has what can best be • described as an unusual experience. The following morning he telephones a friend in Surrey and • recounts the events of the previous evening. Man in the Highlands – Guy Gregory • Man in Surrey – Jonathan Bohman • Dobson – Adam Bohman • "John" – Jonathan Bohman • Writer – Richard Thomas • Music and sound design – Richard Thomas • Field Recordings and Foley – Jonathan Bohman • Additional music cues – Secluded Bronte, Wagner, Schubert, Mendelsohn. Recorded at 360, 35 and on location. A Phone Call From The Highlands is a Secluded Bronte production • 2. Four musicians of The Music Box Project deliver synchronised breath-length phrases to microphones, their presence doubled by the simultaneous lo-fi local broadcast diffusion of their music through the domestic radios they carry. The radios also diffusing field recordings played to air by a fifth performer, composer-producer Stephen Adams, operating the mixing desk of the Imaginary Radio Station. The installation looping in on itself when the musicians shift to using their radios to play the microphone feedback. All five artists interacting within a shared space of improvised sound-making and intense listening. Breathing Rotations is a framework for improvising within the Imaginary Radio Station – a networked instrument-cum-sound-installation.
