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| | | nonvisualobjects (austria) #nvo 015 cd jos smolders “gaussian transient (megaphone)” compact disc - a hum ument was written (7:17)
- in that very narrative passage he sat dejected (3:13)
- parts of the novel. t of a man as photograph (6:28)
- myster t (3:18)
- the same sophical things (4:43)
- pieces of writings of the the writings of the names (2:27)
- a volume perplex (7:15)
- the journal of secret scribing and hiding (3:03)
- journal contents (6:24)
- as yet (3:50)
- is only one half of the toge story (8:42)
- the first scenes and feelings (11:17)
| | nonvisualobjects press release... |
| artist: jos smolders
title: gaussian transient (megaphone)
cat#: nvo_o15
format: cd
release date: june 08
limited edition: 300
by the end of the 80s i produced my first vinyl release, freebasing a for is me. an album completely free of any preconception, built as an abstract expressionist soundsculpture. most of the releases after freebasing have been based on certain material or a working method or structural principles.
sometimes because i needed to contain myself within certain boundaries but most times because i had a certain subject of research in mind (like mono/stereo, or white noise, or the abstraction of human speech).
with this collection of compositions i return to the emptiness of freebasing.
every composition is just what it is. there are no thoughts other than their sonic relations within the construction. i travel from a hospital ward directly into the intestines of a harmonium. from a street with cafιs into a busy railroad, into a lighter into,
et cetera. after the endless process of zooming in and out to get every sound in place i gave a lot of time to the production of this disc. new software (reaper) has given me better and more precise tools for getting the exact sound that i wanted.
about the track titles. i have always been intrigued by language, words and meaning. several of my seminal works are based on the human voice and on language. tom phillips is a british artist working a lot with letters, words and typography. one work particularly intrigued me. during the 70s mr. phillips worked on a book in which he reworked existing pages of books. by painting or drawing over the text he erased most of it but left certain word combinations intact. that way poems were created. while composing these constructions i learned about mr. phillipss work and felt a connection. i too cut parts out of a large page. that part of a much longer recording is set into a new context but still conveys the meaning it had inside the original context. thats how i came to choose the text bits of one of these humuments (no. 6 from the 1st edition) and use them as the titles for the tracks.
- jos smolders |
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