Published
Fri, Feb 28, 2020, 10:30
- Acoustic Shadows, out April 15th on SA Recordings, has since been shaped into an LP and a sample library.
Composer, performer and sound designer Lea Bertucci will release a new album on SA Recordings in April.
Acoustic Shadows, in the artist's own words, started as a series of site-specific musical performances and a sound installation that took place inside the Deutzer Bridge in Cologne, Germany, in 2018. An eight-channel speaker system throughout the bridge was activated by three instrumental performances (for solo alto saxophone, an eight-piece brass ensemble and three percussionists, respectively) throughout the course of a week. Pieces of each performance were then played back through the eight-channels in a loop.
Regarding turning the performances into an album, Bertucci said: "Rather than offer a straight document of a piece that eschewed notions of time, space and subjective/mutable spatial positioning of the listeners, I was more interested in shaping compositions that worked within the parameters of an LP, developing pieces that worked within the approximate time frame of 20 minutes on each side and capturing the essence of the experience."
In November 2019, Bertucci teamed up with sample library creators Spitfire Audio and three musicians to record reverberant brass and percussive sounds from within a former industrial fridge at Tileyard Studios in London.
"The musical ethos of Acoustic Shadows is distilled into a library of samples for brass and percussion instruments, which takes advantage of the natural acoustic condition in the resonant space to create a third instrument, wherein the sound of the instruments is filtered through the reverberant room," Bertucci said.
Last year, Bertucci released two albums: Resonant Field via NNA Tapes and Phase Eclipse with Amirtha Kidambi via Monofonus Press and Astral Spirits.
Listen to an excerpt from "Acoustic Shadows - Brass."
Tracklist
01. Acoustic Shadows - Brass
02. Acoustic Shadows - Percussion
SA Recordings will release Acoustic Shadows on April 15th, 2020.
