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N - 1 (N Minus One) - Surfing on Turntables

from Make it Heard - Vol. 3 by Berro

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Surfing on Turntables (2011)

'Surfing on Turntables' is an audio-visual piece for 4 phonographs, 4 video cameras, and 4 four prepared LP recordings of Mahler's First Symphony alongside scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's film 'The Man Who Knew too Much' (1956). Each LP was prepared with small objects (tapes, buttons, screws, rings, rings) fixed at different positions of the vinyl's surface, causing interference in the recorded material. In the live version, the musicians' gestures (as they manipulate the vinyl records) are captured by cameras positioned on each turntable. These live images are mingled with scenes extracted from the mentioned movie. The piece follows a score that plays with three distinct apexes: 1) the shot that would kill the ambassador in the film; 2) Mahler's first movement orchestral tutti that coincides with the symphonic tonal tension and density; 3) the climax given by the musicians in performance. The piece ends when the three apexes merge, then dissolve into a static repeated scene.

N-1 (N Minus One) is a duo formed by Giuliano Obici (Maringá, 1977) and Alexandre Fenerich (São Paulo, 1977) in 2007, the duo N Minus One (n-1) came from sound experimentation, from "gambioluthiery"—the creation of craft instruments, adaptations, and appropriation of sound materials from everyday life—and improvisation. Navigating the terrain of real-time image manipulation, the duo performs sonorous experimentations and experiences without losing a speculative character.

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from Make it Heard - Vol. 3, track released November 20, 2019
'Surfing on Turntables'. Picture by Rafael Frazão, 2011.

www.giulianobici.com/n-1/home.html

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Unheard noises, unlikely soundscapes, unknown musics, historical sounds. Berro is a Brazilian netlabel focused on music and sound you may not hear elsewhere. It is produced by NuSom - Research Center on Sonology.

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