[microsound-announce] Aaron Ximm on MPRNTBL

[Glenn Bach]

Hello, .microsound.  Here is the latest free download on MPRNTBL:

LIVE AT SO.CAL.SONIC
Aaron Ximm

http://www.mprntbl.com/mprn-005.html

"Aaron Ximm (Quiet American) is a sound-collection artist, gracefully 
sculpting one pristine, untreated field recording into another through 
an immaculately clear sound system. The result is far more striking than 
the description indicates, as everyday sounds — the dripping of water, 
the hum of machinery, the strike and ring of a bell, the pops of a 
burning log—become recontextualized and demand to be reconsidered as the 
sounds themselves and not the sources from which they emanate. The 
outdoor location for his piece was perfect, as the interaction of other 
everyday sounds — a breeze, the scrape of leaves against pavement, the 
Dopplering of an airplane overhead — seemed choreographed to those 
broadcast by the speakers, for a moment pure sonic entities and no 
longer wind, flora, transportation. A protracted, steadily wavering pure 
tone went from being unusual and in the foreground to something 
backgrounded, familiar, completely standardized, eventually coming to 
lend the commonplace sounds of the outdoors (shouts from afar, a truck 
engine, that wind again) a salience they don't usually hold for us, 
bringing them centerstage in our hearing. This festival could not have 
had a more perfect closing."

--Greggory Moore

MPRNTBL is a net label dedicated to quiet music, slow sound, lowercase, 
free improvisation, field recordings, analog noise, and collaborative 
soundscapes.

Best,

G.

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