Spaces
by Jos Smolders
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MFR065 Jean-Luc Guionnet & Miguel A. García - Siticidelhous
MFR066 Matthijs Kouw - Obscurum Per Obscurius
MFR067 Jos Smolders - Spaces (2xCD)
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Oeil Poché
15:30
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A=F=L=O=A=T 1
05:45
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A=F=L=O=A=T 2
03:57
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A=F=L=O=A=T 3
06:06
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A=F=L=O=A=T 4
11:50
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A=F=L=O=A=T 5
04:38
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A=F=L=O=A=T 6
11:50
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A=F=L=O=A=T 7
05:15
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Ode á L'oublie
22:12
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Dans La Nuit, Des Images
16:52
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Traum des Künstlers
01:49
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Torqued Ellipse II
17:00
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about
As a composer and mastering engineer I am extremely sensitive to the sounds around me. But I’m also a keen visitor of museums and while there I always listen to what the museum sounds like. Museums are spaces where people encounter works of art and are given the opportunity to contemplate on this experience. Some do this silently while others keep chatting their route and only vaguely take in what is presented. There’s a lot going on and each museum has its own sonic character.
I have started collecting sounds in 2008. Snippets from these recordings have been part of many works in the years that followed. In 2015 however I decided to construct a complete sound work revolving around the sounds that I recorded. That has become A=F=L=O=A=T. This track was part of my annual musical gift to friends and colleagues and received positive feedback. Then, begin 2017, I decided to make a next move and see if other recordings could be evolved into real compositions. Gradually the concept formed, by composing, experimenting, returning to museums and study the artworks and actually the whole sonic environment of the museum.
Listening to a museum makes you aware of the spatiality of a museum. The, sometimes, huge halls where art is presented also seem to make space in my mind. And so I thought that space would be a good metaphor for the first dimension that I want to express. The second dimension is the work of art itself, which is a silent object. It just hangs there. But it represents a whole universe of thoughts and ideas that the observer can take in and tumble around and around in his mind. My own observations I have translated into the electronic layers on top of the binaural recordings.
The music on the cd’s has been laid out as spacious as possible, leading to long almost silent intermissions between the tracks. In the hope of a listener with a wide-open mind-set.
credits
Recorded, composed, produced and mastered by Jos Smolders
Photography by JS
Layout by Rutger Zuydervelt.
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Moving Furniture Records is a label based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands specialized in releasing experimental electronic run by Sietse van Erve, started in October 2008.
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