From s.f.w.d. Sent Sun, Oct 4th 1998, 07:56
From s.f.w.d. Sent Sun, Oct 4th 1998, 07:56
Inoue fans or otherwise... caught this on the ambient list but hoped it'd be of interest here... ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- comes out 10-20 TETSU INOUE: WATERLOO TERMINAL ARCHITETTURA SERIES VOLUME 2 The Channel Tunnel Railway Terminal at Waterloo is the gateway to the high speed rail tunnel beneath the English Channel that connects England with Paris. The terminal serves the same function as an airport, housing immigration, customs, arrival and departure lounges serving 15 million passengers per year at a rate of 3,000 people traveling in each direction per hour every day. With an average travel time of three hours from start to finish, the Eurostar rail service based in the Waterloo Terminal provides an attractive alternative to the prospect of journeying out to distant Heathrow Airport only to encounter all the attendant delays that seem inescapable in the operation of air traffic. Tetsu Inoue has responded to the challenge of composing for the Waterloo Terminal with a vocabulary specifically suited to a marvel of technology. Unlike the timeless dreamscapes of his previous work, here the foremost element is the crackle of electrons in motion. Here, the ambiance of a large enclosure; there, the roar of the crowd echoing into random background noise; everywhere the dance of electrons pulsing through the circuitry of a vast and complex structure. And remarkably &emdash; even startlingly &emdash; the music was not merely inspired by the Waterloo Station, but in a very real sense it was composed by Tetsu in collaboration with the station Tetsu scanned over 1000 real and digitally altered photographs of the station into his computer and dumped them into his music software, which mathematically translated the arches and surfaces of the structure into electronic sound. It is as if the station itself were given voice, which Tetsu then shaped by altering pitch, timbre, resonance and rhythm, creating a linear collage born from his artistic interpretation of the architecture itself. xxxx@xxxxx.xxx icq_12645306 coming sooner than later: sfwd0004 - pre-mil=B7len=B7ni=B7um soundscapes 12" chris g. 1547 boston court #7, santa rosa, ca 95405 http://www.sonic.net/~brap/