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\nrelease date: 25.02.2013
\nartist:\u00a0 SIMON WHETHAM
\ntitle: Hydrostatic
\norder no.: aatp39
\nLabel code (LC): 01291
\ntime: 53:24
\nfull colour digifile paper sleeve designed by Whetham. Mastered by Miguel Carvalhais. Limited to 300 copies<\/p>\n
13,00 \u20ac plus postage. Available directly from us!
\nOn \u201cHydrostatic\u201d:
\n‚Hydrostatic‘ was commissioned by the McNeill Street Pumping Station New Music Festival, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA in November 2011, and presented as a multi-channel performance.
\nSimon Whetham spent more than a week exploring the site, capturing the sounds of the space, the vibrations of the buildings, the spirit of the community and perhaps the echoes of past activity…
\nMastered by Miguel Carvalhais..
\nSimon Whetham \u2013 Biography 2013<\/p>\n
Over the past eight years Simon Whetham has developed a practice of working with sound recordings as a raw material for composition. These are often environmental sounds he has captured employing a variety of methods and techniques, in order to obtain discreet or obscured sonic phenomena.<\/p>\n
In removing sound from it’s source, sometimes amplifying it significantly, it becomes abstract \u2013 familiar yet otherworldly. More recently, when presenting work in a performance or installation, for him the space and the objects within become instruments to be played.<\/p>\n
Simon has a large number of works published through many specialist organisations, including Touch Music, Cronica, Dragon’s Eye, Monochrome Vision and Entr’acte; has performed extensively internationally; collaborated with artists from musicians to performance artists, painters to video artists, dancers to poets; has run listening and field recording workshops in UK, Colombia, Chile and Australia; and received a large number of commissions and awards for projects and installations \u2013 notably ‚Active Crossover‘. Supported by the Arts Council England and PRS for Music Foundation, the project comprises sound installation, performance, collaboration and workshops. ‚Active Crossover‘ has toured six cities in the UK, and also been hosted in Estonia, Argentina, Australia, Chile and Colombia, with future residencies in Germany and Norway in 2013.<\/p>\n
www.simonwhetham.co.uk<\/a> Sound sample:<\/p>\n [soundcloud url=“http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/85030070″ params=““ width=“ 100%“ height=“166″ iframe=“true“ \/]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n Bad Alchemy 77: A U F\u00a0 A B W E G E N\u00a0 RELEASE INFO CD audio release date: 25.02.2013 artist:\u00a0 SIMON WHETHAM title: Hydrostatic order no.: aatp39 Label code (LC): 01291 time: 53:24 full colour digifile paper sleeve designed by Whetham. Mastered by Miguel Carvalhais. Limited to 300 copies 13,00 \u20ac plus postage. Available directly from us! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aufabwegen","category-cd","category-simon-whetham","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aufabwegen.de\/label\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aufabwegen.de\/label\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aufabwegen.de\/label\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aufabwegen.de\/label\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aufabwegen.de\/label\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.aufabwegen.de\/label\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/www.aufabwegen.de\/label\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aufabwegen.de\/label\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aufabwegen.de\/label\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aufabwegen.de\/label\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aufabwegen.de\/label\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwww.activecrossover.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSIMON WHETHAM, dem wir zuletzt als Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull-Gestrandeten im April 2010 in Lissabon begegnet sind, treffen wir wieder im November 2011 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Das dort stattfindende McNeill Street Pumping Station New Music Festival hatte ihn mit einem Beitrag beauftragt. Er verbrachte eine ganze Woche in dem einstigen Pumpwerk, um den hydrophonen und postin\u00addustrialen Genius loci oder Hausgeist zu begegnen. Das Rauschen von Was\u00adser, der Geschmack von Eisen, Rost und Patina wurden zu Ingredienzen sei\u00adnes Dr\u00f6hnscapes Hydrostatic (aatp39), den nicht zuletzt der Fluss der Zeit durchstr\u00f6mt. Pfeifende Laute und geisterhaft summende evozieren dabei et\u00adwas \u00c4lteres als das Industriezeitalter. H\u00f6lzernes und metallisches Gest\u00f6ber suggeriert eine verlassene Geisterst\u00e4tte, eine Ruine, die nach noch Brauch\u00adbarem durchsucht wird. Organum hat schon auf Vacant Lights solche Kl\u00e4nge eingefangen, Ephraim Wegner hat k\u00fcrzlich \u00e4hnliche in verlassenen Hotelrui\u00adnen gefunden. Immer ist damit ein ‚Danach‘ verbunden, ein ‚Vorbei‘. Latten scharren \u00fcber den Boden, der Wind faucht, als wollte er noch den letzten Eindringling verjagen. 1887 in Betrieb gegangen, wurde bis 1980 dampfbe\u00adtrieben, heute ist das McNeill-Pumpwerk ein National Historic Civil Enginee\u00adring Landmark. Whetham erschafft mit drone\u00fcberw\u00f6lbtem Getr\u00f6pfel und Ge\u00adpl\u00e4tscher die Illusion einer Quelle, des verborgenen Anfangs einer Lebens\u00adader, die hier mit nahezu kultischer Aura widerhallt und wieder als pumpende Mechanik zu ‚atmen‘ beginnt. Das Elementare, das das vermeintlich so ratio\u00adnale und funktionale Maschinenzeitalter ignoriert und verdr\u00e4ngt hat, kommt wieder im Denkmal zum Vorschein, nachdem die Funktionalit\u00e4t modernisiert und inzwischen noch unbewusster geworden ist. Ich glaube, es war Ernst J\u00fcnger, der zuletzt Zweifel an einer Freiheit hatte, die davon abh\u00e4ngt, dass Wasser, Strom und Gas in unsichtbarer guter Hand sind. [BA 77 rbd]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"