Joseph Young – In A Shetland Landscape (2016)
- Field
recording
- Musique concrète
- Conceptual
- Non-music
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
Comment:
there exist different views on field recording. Some people say it's
purpose is to conjure up exactly the same feeling one could get from
a natural environment while listening to an issue. For me, it is not
true because our perception of the nature could not consist of one
perceptive kind only. Of course, the hearing simulation is important
but not the only sort of. On the other side, such sort of albums are
something very special which arouse the listener to go out from
his/her stressful and inferior civilised environment and step into
something to be genuine and pure and authentic. Indeed, we once came
from it which deserves to be protected and unharmed. Our Earth is
gifted to us with purpose that we could demonstrate our thankfulness,
moderateness and wisdom. Do we deserve the name of God's animals or
are we just jerks who are there to fuck up everything laying around
us? In fact, there is no choice in a longer perspective. Thirdly,
Joseph Young as a sonic documentalist's purpose is to seek and
showcase consistency and harmony between the human being and nature,
to reflect on the living of a certain rural area being traditional
and modern through permanent changes within a community. The fourth
point is something very specific, to depict and record some sounds in
the way that they could chime as (minimal) music (at Barbara's
Music). There is up music, it is set up in rhythm, it is the
author's presence a little bit more than just as a sound designer.
Furthermore, in general, he as an artist takes all these authentic
pieces to manipulate with them, to serialise and align them in
different sequences. It is a sense of such a sort of work. Let's
think of all of that while listening to this 14-track issue which
reflects upon the ennobling beauty. The issue is a bit of the
discography of Green Field Recordings.
