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Resonance Regions I, Lake Rusa​ł​ka

by AKASHIC RECORDS

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"Resonance Regions" is an ongoing, developing series of site-specific
music performances, a project whose aim is to bring both musicians and listeners into closer contact with unique sounding locations, "outside of the box". Emphasis is placed on how to reflect and use the unusual physical contours of each location to create new sound environments from the immediate psycho-acoustic circumstances. We investigate the relationship between the architecture of instruments, their projective capabilities and introduce the concept of architecture at the boundaries of utility as an instrument, the location as instrument, an opportunity for unrepeatable creative sound events. As an intersection between the inside and the outside, our series of recordings blends the ethos of acoustic ecology, the art of listening most often practiced under the umbrella of field recording and the voices of instrumentalists, finding shifting fissures in the certainty of this concrete environment, where there is often a threat of losing one's sound-identity, recovered by resonance & transfigured in another body of sound, heard uniquely by the listener in new contexts (your very own, now, for instance). The sounds were recorded live and have been edited only to balance the levels across the 6 different microphone sets. There is no post-production reverb or echo applied.


"Resonance Regions I, Lake Rusałka", took the form of a meeting inside the tunnel of a viaduct near the man-made lake in Poznan which has been named Rusałka, alluding to the legendary water nymphs of Slavic folklore.
Surrounded by forests, trees jut out of the water, swans meet, frogs and fish jump, one notices gnawed stumps, the work of beavers. The idyllic scene charms the random visitor. The veil of fairy-tale & placidity is quickly rent to tatters by a study of the history of the Nazi military occupation, the forced labor and mass murder in the region during the war when prisoners created the lake bed with, among other things, their ancestors tomb-stones. For a further information about the history of the lake and the origins of the work on this CD:

transparent-abelard.blogspot.com/2018/05/rusaka-water-walk.html

The tunnel where we played is approximately 100 meters long, walls filled with the residue of ever-shifting borders of a graffiti war-zone which itself attests to deep rifts in the society. Above the rumble of automobiles and the occasional train. Below, at ground level, joggers, dog-walkers, fishermen, bikers en route to and from the lake constitute and unpredictable walk-on cast. Below the below, who knows.
-- Jeff Gburek


Summer resort on a cemetery - these forgotten circumstances of creating Rusałka lake, came as a real shock for me when I'd heard about them for the first time. The most popular recreation place in Poznań is also grave of thousands of Jewish and Polish prisoners which built the Nazi's world for the „master race”. Our music meeting in the tunnel near the lake was planned as some kind of tribute concert for victims but now with wider perspective I see that ruthless story also in a more universal way. I wonder how weak is human memory which lets all such moments pass through. How quickly structures of our civilization turn to ashes, how big an advantage nature has over us, how easy nature can devour any architectural constructions, kingdoms, clothes, scores and love letters. All the material evidence of (no matter which) butchers’ or victims’ existence, they are as solid as an echo in the tunnel.
-- Piotr Delimata

Being aware of the whole historical and humanistic context, as noted above by both Jeff & Piotr, exhaustively, I will focus on what happened from my perspective in those moments on the morning of May 11, 2018. The first sounds convinced me that this place is very unusual in terms of acoustics and that I will have the ability to interact with sensitive and responsive musicians. Playing, mutual listening and sharing the sounds in this space at the morning hour, when the senses were fresh, was a cleansing and uplifting experience. The acoustic space and movement of the musicians themselves in space meant that the colors of clarinets and melodica interpenetrated each other, moving away combining them into unusual shapes with long reverberation shades interspersed with subtle sounds of nature, street, bicycle and pedestrian traffic. The tunnel has powerful sound possibilities. I will certainly go back there to discover the whole potential of this space.
-- Michał Giżycki

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released July 4, 2018

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AKASHIC RECORDS Poland

Guitarist, composer, sound designer, field recordist, shortwave radio poet, blending electro-acoustic, electronica, spectral comp., cracked circuits, sounding organic objects with an ear towards earth voices. Studied Javanese and Balinese gamelan and theories of Partch and Xenakis. Working with dance/theater/butoh co. Djalma Primordial Science. More than 400 concerts throughout Europe since 2005. ... more

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