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>MUZARC
>Music and Architecture
>SCDROM01
>UPC: 1753-32814-2
>
>MUZARC rather fans out or even multiplies the scope of visual and sonic
>inter-dependencies instead of expressing or conveying the specifics of an
>event (which is impossible anyway). Although the CD can't deny its
>relatedness toward a succession of events that took place it may, through
>its structure and architecture, encourage you to pursue your personal
>"voyage of sound".
>
>MUZARC happened as a seminar at the department of Architecture at
>University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
>
>CD-ROM realisation: Björn Erik Behrens, Florian Fischer, Rob Liedgens,
>Claudia Westermann. Tutors: Hagen Schwenk and Achim Wollscheid.
>
>This CD-ROM runs on MacOs- and Windows-Systems (3.11, 95/98 or NT). All
>texts are in English and German except for the essays, which are only in
>German. A sound output device is necessary to run the CD-ROM.
>
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>SYNAPSES
>Synapses IV and I
>SHS005 (cd)
>UPC: 1753-32798-2
>
>Synapses : Jean Luc Guionnet & Eric Cordier : Instrumental device Synapses
>is an instrumental device of combined string instruments (acoustic and
>electric guitars, detuned piano, spinett-vina, hurdy-gurdy and cello),
>percussion instruments and metal resonatorsall interconnected with
>double-bass-, cello- and guitar-strings. When one string is played the
>resulting sound or movement is transferred by the connected strings to the
>next resonator. Thus one action causes several sound events. In fact, it's
>impossible to touch one element of the system without getting response of
>the whole device.
>
>Synapses is a hanging sensible network. The suspended instruments are kept
>in tension by strings and springs so that the system will enter a rocking
>movement in relation to the sonic in- and output of each instrument. These
>oscillations result from the musicians' actions and constitute steady
>rhythms, the musicians have to deal with.
>One string generally connects two resonance bodies, so that the resulting
>sound is in "stereo". While the musicians are moving in the scrub of
>strings and instruments, there is no head-on relationship between stage and
>audience. In a concert this device is amplified and spatially distributed
>via 8 chanels. In contrast to the usual stage setting Synapses is located
>in the center of a space, while the audience is free to move around during
>performance.
>
>Synapses IV has been performed June 1998 the 3rd, at Le Garage, Paris. Live
>two track recording without treatment or reverberation. Recording & editing
>: Eric La Casa.
>
>Synapses I has been recorded on 12 tracks January 1996 the 1st at studio La
>Grande Fabrique, Dieppe, by the musicians.
>
>Pictures E. C., E. L. C., design Selektion