Parking by Jean-Luc Guionnet + Eric La Casa + Philip Samartzis + Dan Warburton
Jean-Luc Guionnet – Saxophone
Dan Warburton – Violin
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Eric La Casa and Philip Samartzis - Recordings, Editings, Mastering
reviews :
- Bandcamp (Matthew Blackwell) https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-field-recordings/the-best-field-recordings-on-bandcamp-february-2024
- Vital Weekly (Frans de Waard), https://www.vitalweekly.net/number-1429/
- Pinkushion (Umut Ungan) https://pinkushion.com/2024/03/11/jean-luc-guionnet-eric-la-casa-philip-samartzis-dan-warburton-parking/
- The Squid's Ear (Jeph Jerman) https://www.squidco.com/cgi-bin/news/newsView.cgi?newsID=2762
Parking features two works recorded 14 years apart registering the behaviour and characteristics of environmental and instrumental sound resounding within multiple parking garages. The architectural form and function underpinning the parking garage demands a highly adaptive response to negotiate indeterminate conditions and hidden tensions generated by compressed space, reflective materiality, multipurpose infrastructure, and active thoroughfares. Rather than consider these as undesirable, situational practice offers an opportunity to be in the world, to observe and contest dominant narratives, and through improvised responses incorporate aleatory forces and spatial effects. (philip Samartzis)
Recordings :
Parking La Villette (Parking Cité de le musique, Paris, May 7th 2007)
Parking La Villette comprises an improvisation recorded in a parking garage located at the edge of Parc de la Villette, beneath the Cité de la Musique, in Paris.
And Parking 2 (Parking rue de Maronites, Paris, and Victoria gardens carpark, Melbourne, 2021)
Parking 2 was recorded in Melbourne and Paris during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Editings : 2007 and 2021
Mastering : 2023
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For 30 years, while listening to the environment, I have been questioning the perception of reality and has tried to expand the notion of infra-ordinary (space-time at low intensity), from background noise to the inaudible, through the wait, the pause.