Robert Curgenven – Beyond Enclosures

Format: 3 x CD
Catalogue No.: RFE05
Barcode: 9790900233882
Release Date: 22 Oct 2021
Genre: Alternative

The 3 albums that comprise this set all, at their heart, concern air and the attendant inter-permeability and fluidity of volumes. Be they discretionary or open volumes, architectural or spatiotemporal, each volume is subject to the specificities of: their resonance; the concomitant movements of volumes of air; their locational context and adjacent spaces. The 3 albums present different harmonic, gestural and durational possibilities to encourage us to step out of the perceptual frameworks that enclose us. Each album offers a unique instrumental foundation: experimental turntable techniques interwoven with piano & pipe organ harmonics (Bardo); resonant architectural interventions articulated by custom-made oscillators in post-Communist architectures and their locational context (SPECTRES); extended pipe organ techniques with an accompanying soundsystem that plumbs architectural harmonics and corporeal resonances (Bronze Lands). These works entreat us to think and hear beyond the structures enclosing each instrumental- and performance- approach – the turntable body, the architectural, the pipe organ, the speaker enclosure itself, even the confines of an audience as a gathering – and to also consider these longform works as an inter-related suite of aural and conceptual worlds.

TRACKLIST: Bardo (longform) for Three Turntables, Pipe Organ & Piano (RFE06) 1. Bardo (longform) for Three Turntables, Pipe Organ & Piano SPECTRES (RFE07) 1. introduction - in the courtyard, a garden 2. framed by a threshold 3. where bodies corporate stand 4. Spectres’ vapours stood 5. after an epoch – to 30 years Solidarności (1989-2019) Robert Curgenven - Bronze Lands (Tailte Cré-Umha) - Live at Sydney Festival 2020 (RFE08) 1. Bronze Lands (Tailte Cré-Umha) - Live at Sydney Festival 2020 - Part I - VI